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respectfully, its a claude wrapper. with that said if you really can't live without it-- you have the binary, you know what to do.…
— techmunky, 2026-11-04 · Conductor Is Joining Meta · source

…liar with. I also didn't have a personal paid AI code tool, so again either pay for a personal one or just use the work Claude account. Also the webcam on my work laptop is substantially nicer than my personal laptop. Also, critically, it doesn't matter. If IT or my manager had p…
— alyeska2, 2026-11-04 · North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist · source

…e some API keys for some open weight models in Europe, but currently not using those. 3. I've personally used OpenCode, Claude Code and Codex and of those, I liked Codex the most, till bugs kept on accumulating and they started doing all kinds of shit like that daemon recently. I…
— warpspin, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

…3 Code, it is by far the best one I have tried that isn't glued to a specific model provider. Trades blows with Codex / Claude Desktop in terms of features. All of the other multi-provider orchestrators have not been keeping up with Claude Desktop in particular adding features at…
— 2001zhaozhao, 2026-11-04 · Conductor Is Joining Meta · source

I love that video. Was it also claude-coded?…
— mongol, 2026-11-04 · Kitty 0.50 · source

1. Using ChatGPT with a Business Premium seat (not personally paying for it). 2. Also have some API keys for some open weight models in Europe, but currently not using those. 3. I've personally used OpenCode, Claude Code and Codex and of those, I liked Codex the most, till bugs k…
— warpspin, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

1) Claude code (Max) at work. Claude code (Pro) personal account for side projects. I do still have a ChatGPT subscription. I'm tempted to cancel it, but I like their app. Gemini is bundled somehow into my google subscriptions. I use it occasionally, but I'd be just as happy to n…
— patwolf, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

1) Only ChatGPT Plus at the moment cause I'm between jobs and couldn't justify all the subs. Grok gave me three months at $30 when I tried to cancel so there's that too. I wanted to really keep Claude but ChatGPT voice mode is too good tbh and no other comes close. I wish I coul…
— yewenjie, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

1) Right now I have Opencode Go Plus, Mistral Pro, Kimi. It changes. Kimi is not staying and I'm probably getting ChatGPT for a bit, last month I had Claude Pro. I stay around €100 a month total. I generally use open weight models (Kimi K3.1, Mistral Large 4, GLM-5.3, DeepSeek v4…
— ctolsen, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

…ust the AI's claims. Highly recommend trying it out about any topic you may be interested in. I use the free version of ChatGPT. I've also used the Google search AI a lot, I'll basically just Google a question and then proceed to ask followup questions etc. I'm sure it's not all…
— sfn42, 2026-11-04 · How I use AI (Oct 2026) · source

…e some API keys for some open weight models in Europe, but currently not using those. 3. I've personally used OpenCode, Claude Code and Codex and of those, I liked Codex the most, till bugs kept on accumulating and they started doing all kinds of shit like that daemon recently. I…
— warpspin, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

I'm using Claude Code (Ultra) across a multitude of tmux sessions, over two or three laptops – largely so long running actions don't happen on the actual laptop I take with me (nothing worse than waiting around for an agent to finish before you can leave a café). To make it a lit…
— robgough, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

1) Claude Code (Claude Teams Premium seat) plus pi.dev (self-hosted GLM-5.3) at work, Claude Pro at home. Opus 5.5 Extra effort for ~99% of the prompts. 2) Not really, messed around with Openrouter and Deepseek for some stuff that Claude refused to do 3) I use Claude Desktop (Lin…
— world2vec, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

1) Claude code (Max) at work. Claude code (Pro) personal account for side projects. I do still have a ChatGPT subscription. I'm tempted to cancel it, but I like their app. Gemini is bundled somehow into my google subscriptions. I use it occasionally, but I'd be just as happy to n…
— patwolf, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

For personal work. I use Orca. 1. Claude Code with $20 Claude subscription. This used to be a terrible value but now it's a great value, probably because of the IPO. I do a lot of coding and other things and I rarely get close to my weekly limit. I mostly use Opus 5.5 medium. Cod…
— tinyhouse, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

…onal account for side projects. I do still have a ChatGPT subscription. I'm tempted to cancel it, but I like their app. Gemini is bundled somehow into my google subscriptions. I use it occasionally, but I'd be just as happy to not be paying for it. 2) I do use Openrouter for side…
— patwolf, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

…fy, Podman, Docker, Lambda, Serverless, Message Queues, Stripe, Linux, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Nginx, GitHub Actions, Gemini, Ollama. Résumé/CV: On request via email Hi I’m Mark, a Web Developer, Consultant and Automation Engineer originally from the UK. I specialize in devops/…
— mjgs, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2026) · source

…fy, Podman, Docker, Lambda, Serverless, Message Queues, Stripe, Linux, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Nginx, GitHub Actions, Gemini, Ollama. Résumé/CV: On request via email Hi I’m Mark, a Web Developer, Consultant and Automation Engineer originally from the UK. I specialize in devops/…
— mjgs, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…y store, my dentist, my landscaper - all cannot stop talking about Grok Bot, about "Chat" (they usually mean ChatGPT or Gemini). Maybe this time I can get in and get out in time, get real rich! Maybe this time it's different!…
— lnkdinsuxs, 2026-11-03 · The AI Boom May Be Sowing Seeds of Another Financial Crisis · source

…! One day I try to set a timer on my phone, which is basically all I use the voice features for, and it forced me into Gemini AND data collection. It's truly maddening.…
— pertique, 2026-11-03 · Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI · source

…locate: Yes Technologies: React, Typescript / Javascript, Web Components, CSS, UI Design, Golang, C++, MySQL, Postgres, Docker, Linux Résumé/CV: https://sectionfourteen.com Email: anthony[at]sectionfourteen[dot]com --- Another post into the void! Due to the huge number of spam me…
— H1Supreme, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…Europe. Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, Express, Vue.js, Pinia, GrapesJS, PostgreSQL, Prisma ORM, Redis, Docker, Vitest, REST APIs, GitLab CI/CD. Personal projects and coursework: React, Next.js, Fastify, Drizzle ORM, Better Auth, Turborepo, pnpm, observability too…
— LunrkDev, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…Remote only Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Go, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, React, PostgreSQL, AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD, etc Résumé/CV: Available by email Email: andrew.swe.30@gmail.com Portfolio: https://portfolio-sweandrew.vercel.app/ GitHub: https:/…
— masterdev1030, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…ore, Hong Kong or Shanghai Technologies: Python, TypeScript, Node, React, Go, Rust, C++, PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB, Redis, Docker, Linux, AWS; LLM agents, agent memory, RAG, MCP, real-time voice (streaming STT/TTS), WebSocket/SSE Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W5On84-VH…
— immutable_hash, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…hon, Bash, Git, Express, Mocha, HTML/Javascript/CSS, ES2015-2020, OAuth 2.0, React, JQuery, Bootstrap, Netlify, Podman, Docker, Lambda, Serverless, Message Queues, Stripe, Linux, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Nginx, GitHub Actions, Gemini, Ollama. Résumé/CV: On request via email Hi I…
— mjgs, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2026) · source

…ipt, TypeScript, Python, web technologies (HTML/CSS, frameworks, browser APIs), Bash, Zsh, Fish, Linux, FreeBSD, MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Docker, mathematics, the English language and Latex. Email: achenet@fastmail.com Website: https://arielche.net/ I am a softwar…
— achenet, 2026-11-03 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…s there as well if that's your thing) everything is persisted in simple local text files that you can actually read (or sqlite database if you don't care / have more data) ie there is no integration, k8s-style nonsense etc, you can just use it on project or on your system user le…
— mirekrusin, 2026-11-03 · Nvidia – open-source auto-ontology · source

…, mobile, React, Svelte, Next.js, Express, Rust, AI/ML models, LLMs, MCP, agentic workflows, CI/CD, IoT, SQL, Postgres, SQLite, Redis, Memcached, APIs, Linux, Docker Résumé/CV: https://www.nfriedly.com/Nathan-Friedly-Resume.pdf • https://www.nfriedly.com/portfolio • https://githu…
— nfriedly, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…C++, Fortran, Java, Message Passing Interface (MPI), OpenMP, Python (Matplotlib, Numpy, Pandas, Scipy), SQL (especially SQLite) Résumé/CV: Available upon request Email: https://www.andrewtrettel.com/hnjobs.png (to prevent spam, my email address is in the linked image) GitHub: htt…
— atrettel, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…KING WORK | Web dev | Gijon, Spain, UTC+2 | Remote | Ru / Eng Skills: TypeScript, Java, React, Vue, Three.js / WebGL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, + Design/UI/UX, CI/CD, OOP, TDD, AI / Claude Code Résumé/CV: https://konfrontend.github.io/ Email: konfrontend@gmail.com Github: https…
— gembag, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2026) · source

…ling to relocate: Yes Technologies: React, Typescript / Javascript, Web Components, CSS, UI Design, Golang, C++, MySQL, Postgres, Docker, Linux Résumé/CV: https://sectionfourteen.com Email: anthony[at]sectionfourteen[dot]com --- Another post into the void! Due to the huge number…
— H1Supreme, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

I’ll be real, I use Postgres every day and I have no clue what you’re talking about…
— hmokiguess, 2026-11-04 · The Internals of PostgreSQL · source

…-2020, OAuth 2.0, React, JQuery, Bootstrap, Netlify, Podman, Docker, Lambda, Serverless, Message Queues, Stripe, Linux, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Nginx, GitHub Actions, Gemini, Ollama. Résumé/CV: On request via email Hi I’m Mark, a Web Developer, Consultant and Automation Enginee…
— mjgs, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2026) · source

…-2020, OAuth 2.0, React, JQuery, Bootstrap, Netlify, Podman, Docker, Lambda, Serverless, Message Queues, Stripe, Linux, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Nginx, GitHub Actions, Gemini, Ollama. Résumé/CV: On request via email Hi I’m Mark, a Web Developer, Consultant and Automation Enginee…
— mjgs, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…s required, and you must be based in the EU. Backend Stack: Ruby / Rails (8.x), StimulusJS / Hotwire / Turbo, AlpineJS, Postgres, Docker, DigitalOcean, OpenAPI, LLMs We are also seeking a Robotics Engineer to work from our robotics lab in Bremen, Germany. We are building a retail…
— AREO_Marius, 2026-11-03 · Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026) · source

…both qwen 3.6 35b-a3b and qwen 3.8 27b on my Macbook Pro (M5 Pro, 48GB, 18/20). I use those with ollama and hermes (and Obsidian, to an extent) 3. Hermes Agent, Claude CLI and Claude in VS Code 4. No 5. Hermes Agent I use a carefully curated selection of agents for my professiona…
— gaoshan, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

…the one" for a long time, but I can't even explain what I expect from it, so the search is basically impossible. I used Obsidian for quite a while and ended up getting tired of it, I'm going to give Bear a try…
— marcellosso, 2026-11-03 · Bear turns 10, and it still feels like day one · source

I use Zettlr as a front end to Markdown notes. It's similar to Obsidian, but works better for me, since I do a fair amount of academic work right now.…
— bovermyer, 2026-11-03 · Bear turns 10, and it still feels like day one · source

I've been using Bear for a long time. I tried Obsidian to move off Bear, but it didn't last long. The Bear UX is just great and that's what's kept me around this long.…
— bherms, 2026-11-03 · Bear turns 10, and it still feels like day one · source

I use both Bear and Obsidian. I do some long-form writing in Bear but keep all of my structured notes and markdown in Obsidian. Obsidian has much better tooling and many more features, but Bear has a very pleasant experience for writing. It's very simple but if it's all you need…
— chrisfosterelli, 2026-11-03 · Bear turns 10, and it still feels like day one · source

Still there's something to the notion of people who prefer Academia to Industry. As much as I tend to agree with your broader points that it's a game and people love the prestige game and they now can pull levers to accelerate their winning in that Prestige game.. still they chos…
— redwood, 2026-11-04 · Verification Is Not Knowledge: Science needs more than answers · source

…ratch. When generic AI output became the problem, I came up with an in-place DPO approach that mined their actual messy Notion editing history, including highlights, strikethroughs and collaborative edits, to generate positive/negative preference pairs for few-shot prompting. No…
— prman_, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…fic culture, and the power of shared purpose to gloss over social differences. Even as a plot device, it feels like the notion that {solving material/energetic needs solves existential needs} feels of a piece with a very particular, commoditized, late-industrial type of social cl…
— alwa, 2026-10-31 · We won't "just hang out" · source

…Moxie talked about scope of choice and how the scope of choice changed to "do I want to carry a cell phone, or not?". A notion that Matthew's dream was to impose on the world a demand to carry a cell phone or a debit/credit card transaction on others, such a tax, to enjoy what he…
— jon128, 2026-10-31 · Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable · source

…es lived in saved (and unsaved) text files in Sublime Text. At some point I've tried using TiddlyWiki, bandwagoned onto Notion and Obsidian, and once even opened Microsoft OneNote. My brain doesn't work like that, the 5,715 unread emails in my inbox is proof of a losing battle. A…
— coffeethursday, 2026-10-31 · I take notes as a VC, and the app I built for it · source

…but am looking for something cheaper, as my usage is waning somewhat. I like to hop between models for comparison, but openrouter always seems to end up being way more expensive for the flagship models. I also keep a GPT Plus subscription for voice, until someone has a comparabl…
— grep_name, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

…GLM-5.3) at work, Claude Pro at home. Opus 5.5 Extra effort for ~99% of the prompts. 2) Not really, messed around with Openrouter and Deepseek for some stuff that Claude refused to do 3) I use Claude Desktop (Linux) and a heavily modified pi.dev at work VSCode as IDE. At home ju…
— world2vec, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

…ehow into my google subscriptions. I use it occasionally, but I'd be just as happy to not be paying for it. 2) I do use Openrouter for side projects that need an embedded AI. For example, on Halloween I made a talking pumpkin to greet trick or treaters as they came to the porch.…
— patwolf, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

…keep Claude but ChatGPT voice mode is too good tbh and no other comes close. I wish I could use Opus 5.5 for coding. 2) OpenRouter PAYG, mostly for experimenting with Chinese models like Deepseek and GLM, usually for stuff that Codex or Grok refuses to do. Had been looking into N…
— yewenjie, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

…eepSeek v4.1 Flash, Mimo v2.6 Pro is the current quiver) but I use closed frontiers enough to stay up to date. 2) I use OpenRouter if I have a specific need, audio transcription (MAI-Transcribe 2) being something I use often enough. Also using it just to test random models. Not m…
— ctolsen, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

Location: West coast USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: NixOS, Fedora, Go, Rust, Typescript, Proficient in Python/PHP/Most other things Resume/CV: Fortune 500 & YC Startups [ https://philippeterson.com/resume ] LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-peter…
— ironmagma, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

Macbook Air mid-2012 here. 8GB. I use Nixos without a desktop env, this little machine refuses to die or become obsolete. I have a 3090 in a desktop for messing around with LLMs but that's headless.…
— exe34, 2026-11-02 · My Favourite Laptop · source

…e a master's degree in mathematics, and did some research in inverse reinforcement learning. I love things like: Emacs, NixOS, functional programming, category theory. I'm looking for a generalist, full-stack or applied AI role on a high-agency, low-bullshit team. If you're build…
— yewenjie, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

I use NixOS btw…
— dp-hackernews, 2026-11-02 · WTF Ubuntu? · source

…r production (on my NAS it's mostly stable but has gone down a few times) So what's next? Centos is a rolling upgrade, nixos?…
— sersi, 2026-11-02 · WTF Ubuntu? · source

…en you run something that crashes the terminal?) Possibly related: I use ctrl+shift+h (and somehow configured it to use neovim), which is a nice way to navigate the terminal history - useful when pilfering through thousands of lines of local server logs…
— nomilk, 2026-11-04 · Kitty 0.50 · source

Ubuntu is based of Debian testing. You can verify this by comparing the versions of neovim available on the repos. Debian[1]: > trixie (stable) (editors): heavily refactored vim fork > 0.10.4-8: amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 ppc64el riscv64 s390x > forky (testing) (editors): heavi…
— worksonmine, 2026-11-02 · WTF Ubuntu? · source

…appview is down. One musing: I did run into my first "issue" with federated Git hosting the other day while setting up Neovim on a new machine. One of the plugins I use is hosted on Tangled and I guess its backing Knot was down. This was awkward for two reasons: 1. It as unclear…
— stryan, 2026-10-30 · The federated code forge · source

…C, Python, Rust may not have. One last thing on the Vim emulation front: While I'm not a big fan of VSCode, the VSCode-Neovim extension[0] connects to an actual Neovim instance via Neovim's MessagePack-RPC API, allowing you to use real Neovim but native in VS Code. Pretty cool!…
— wilkystyle, 2026-10-29 · Emacs Turns 50 · source

I'm slowly getting into it. I only got into vim (neovim) a couple years ago (been computing as a kid since early 80s). But have been enjoying learning alot of emacs (oh god so much to learn :)) I'm not ready to make the jump (not sure I will jump at all, but...) I am gonna mess…
— wormius, 2026-10-29 · Emacs Turns 50 · source

…48GB, 18/20). I use those with ollama and hermes (and Obsidian, to an extent) 3. Hermes Agent, Claude CLI and Claude in VS Code 4. No 5. Hermes Agent I use a carefully curated selection of agents for my professional work. Agents to handle adversarial code review, planning, questi…
— gaoshan, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

…r for Photoshop mockups on macOS and Windows. I've contributed PRs and patches to Darktable, Chromium, Three.js, Astro, VS Code, and Nuxt. I use AI coding tools extensively, while keeping responsibility for technical decisions, testing, and what ships. Looking for a remote softwa…
— arecsu, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…crazy to run third-party software (including package managers like npm) unrestricted. The overhead is significant, and VS Code UI is lagging heavily without a GPU.…
— codedokode, 2026-10-31 · Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth · source

VS Code extensions have always been terrible from a security perspective. This seems like it's a supply chain attack? Makes me think of Solar Winds from a few years ago. It doesn't appear that the Claude Code harness itself was compromised, was it? or Cursor if you use Anthropic…
— airhangerf15, 2026-10-30 · Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace · source

…t working with e.g. C, Python, Rust may not have. One last thing on the Vim emulation front: While I'm not a big fan of VSCode, the VSCode-Neovim extension[0] connects to an actual Neovim instance via Neovim's MessagePack-RPC API, allowing you to use real Neovim but native in VS…
— wilkystyle, 2026-10-29 · Emacs Turns 50 · source

I'm using Claude Code (Ultra) across a multitude of tmux sessions, over two or three laptops – largely so long running actions don't happen on the actual laptop I take with me (nothing worse than waiting around for an agent to finish before you can leave a café). To make it a lit…
— robgough, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

Just wanted to say I really love your project! Using Vim and TMUX more than ever these days alongside the Claude Code terminal integration, so this is a great tool to become even more proficient with Vim movements.…
— wjgilmore, 2026-11-03 · Show HN: I built a little browser game to practice Vim commands · source

I built my own web tmux type thing running on a beefy metal box (for rust builds) that I access over tailscale. I was using HAPI, but I wanted to simplify and use rust for the back end and my own elm-like front-end to improve performance. I haven't published it since it's pretty…
— rapind, 2026-11-02 · My Favourite Laptop · source

…out agents. I see the appeal of having first support for agents but I’d also like something I can use myself like I use tmux, without agents. If agents didn’t exist, would herdr provide a nice UX as a terminal multiplexer?…
— FacelessJim, 2026-10-30 · Herdr has released native app · source

From someone who also used screen and tmux for 30 years: 3 reasons why I switched to herder. They may not be relevant to you and in that case tmux is just great. One: visual indication which agent is working and which is waiting for an input. Two: native support for remote herdr…
— mynegation, 2026-10-30 · Herdr has released native app · source

…AWS Bedrock. 2. I use both qwen 3.6 35b-a3b and qwen 3.8 27b on my Macbook Pro (M5 Pro, 48GB, 18/20). I use those with ollama and hermes (and Obsidian, to an extent) 3. Hermes Agent, Claude CLI and Claude in VS Code 4. No 5. Hermes Agent I use a carefully curated selection of ag…
— gaoshan, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

…an, Docker, Lambda, Serverless, Message Queues, Stripe, Linux, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Nginx, GitHub Actions, Gemini, Ollama. Résumé/CV: On request via email Hi I’m Mark, a Web Developer, Consultant and Automation Engineer originally from the UK. I specialize in devops/system t…
— mjgs, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2026) · source

…an, Docker, Lambda, Serverless, Message Queues, Stripe, Linux, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Nginx, GitHub Actions, Gemini, Ollama. Résumé/CV: On request via email Hi I’m Mark, a Web Developer, Consultant and Automation Engineer originally from the UK. I specialize in devops/system t…
— mjgs, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…ly supports Claude / OpenAI / Gemini / DeepSeek / xAI / OpenRouter, any OpenAI-compatible API, and local models through Ollama or LM Studio It's free and open source (MIT), for macOS 14 or later Friends who are interested are welcome to try it out and give feedback For any sugges…
— AriesIMio, 2026-10-29 · Show HN: Howler, a macOS menu bar AI that burns the chat after reading · source

…pplication has it's offline-matcher which gives matching score for resume-role, and extends beyond. OpenAI, Openrouter, Ollama compatible. Simple setup - clone the repo, run docker compose up -d or the start program directly. First run walks you through onboarding. everything run…
— mr-anjaneyam, 2026-10-26 · Show HN: JobTrace – a self hosted job tracker that sweeps across various portals · source

I have a Hetzner box that costs about 10$ a month - I use that as my always-on box. I use Pi as my harness and they run in herdr. I can then from my Mac (bottom of the line macbook air - next laptop will be a Neo) ssh to the box and control my agents. I can also ssh into the box…
— krzs9, 2026-10-28 · New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 · source

…ticles, fine tuned on my home 5090 in a few minutes on 500 articles tagged by gpt 6.1, works fantastically. Deployed on hetzner running on a cpu .…
— Aerialoo, 2026-10-27 · Introducing LFM3: Every Modality for Specialized Intelligence · source

…rust infra projects, and have been using stalwart for a long time. Its been excellent for self hosting email on a small hetzner instance. Highly recommended, and happy to see the rare 1.x release in the rust ecosystem. Wrote a bit about my experiences here: https://lindfors.no/bl…
— Depurator, 2026-10-26 · Stalwart v1.0: The Fastest Mail Server on the Planet · source

…you could run those locally or in a data center. Or you just get hardware resources from your favorite cloud provider. Hetzner (one of the more affordable ones) GPU servers start at around 200 euro per month. I know some people that use that with open weight models. Works fine,…
— jillesvangurp, 2026-10-26 · IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem · source

…time ago, and their apps across all platforms look and work consistently. I only recently switched to Jellyfin because Hetzner blocks Plex, but otherwise I wouldn't have had a big reason to switch.…
— dewey, 2026-10-21 · Plex laid off the whole player team · source

This would be an excellent opportunity for Kagi to swoop in and offer free or highly discounted access to schools. Fuck google…
— unrented7977, 2026-11-03 · Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI · source

…oding side projects. Though I often reach for a frontier model for serious coding issues, local for rubber-ducking, and Kagi's research assistant for initial planning. [0] Pipe dream, unless international copyright law drastically changes. Since opening the dataset for any compet…
— prophesi, 2026-11-03 · Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen · source

This is drastically different from how I live and work. I may do over 100 (Kagi) searches a day. I use Claude too but I am just faster searching after decades of experience.…
— drewbitt, 2026-10-30 · Alphabet heads for a $500B drop in market value, biggest in its history · source

…riven by more consumers using AI chatbots to find answers.” But none of that says Google is losing its user base. I use Kagi and am skeptical of the debt-fuelled AI build-out. But 12% growth amidst a strategic pivot is unabashed good news. The stock sank because of the capital ex…
— JumpCrisscross, 2026-10-29 · Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue · source

…en Seville and Madrid. That's a pretty low bar in terms of safety! I set my favorite agent on the task (Opus 5.5 in the Kagi Assistant), and given the two rail crashes in Spain this year, these are the stats it came up with for "chances of dying" via various modes of transportati…
— steelframe, 2026-10-29 · What we know so far about Spain train crash · source

…, FreeBSD, MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Docker, mathematics, the English language and Latex. Email: achenet@fastmail.com Website: https://arielche.net/ I am a software developer and researcher with half a decade of experience and a Master's degree in mathematics. I ha…
— achenet, 2026-11-03 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…OpenGL, OpenTelemetry Languages: English (native), Serbo-Croatian (intermediate), Japanese (basic) Email: shy.goose1613@fastmail.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/opeik GitHub: https://github.com/opeik Résumé: please email me for a copy I've been programming as a hobbyist…
— opeik, 2026-11-03 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

If Fastmail offered a CA certificate, then whenever I use Fastmail I would run another separate browser instance or mail client with all CA certs removed and Fastmail's CA certificate loaded. This behavior, or lack of it, and resulting functionality is what differentiates the "fo…
— jon128, 2026-11-01 · Understanding Email Encryption (2025) · source

This is a good overview of email encryption, but it doesn't cover what Fastmail actually supports which I think makes this misleading. Fastmail does not enforce MTA-STS for outbound messages. I just checked here (https://email-security-scans.org/view/jktrld5e73b2dyxz0h1swu...). Y…
— 8organicbits, 2026-11-01 · Understanding Email Encryption (2025) · source

Any alternatives folks can recommend? I myself am considering switching from protonmail to fastmail. I’m looking for something hassle-free and “not google”.…
— ivandenysov, 2026-10-31 · I'm a Proton employee and I'm breaking my silence · source

I built my own web tmux type thing running on a beefy metal box (for rust builds) that I access over tailscale. I was using HAPI, but I wanted to simplify and use rust for the back end and my own elm-like front-end to improve performance. I haven't published it since it's pretty…
— rapind, 2026-11-02 · My Favourite Laptop · source

…ads, and a knowledge base. You can manage your fleet of bots across as many local machines as you want. I run this on a Tailscale network. Bots claim threads, split work into units, hand off what's left, tag each other for help, and build up project context that works like instit…
— sybhn, 2026-10-30 · Show HN: Bot_board – A message board for code harnesses collaboration · source

I use https://github.com/0cv/herdr-mobile-relay I use it only with tailscale.…
— wallst07, 2026-10-30 · Herdr has released native app · source

…ds etc. And those processes can talk to each other and control each other too if u want! For a single person with herdr+tailscale, you can make your own evolving software thingamajig across all the possible computers u have access to (pls don't call it a factory, we didn't call y…
— 77ko, 2026-10-30 · Herdr has released native app · source

…for me it is a step up from years using tmux. The new native Herdr app is yet another step up. I use multiple Macs with Tailscale connections and the Herdr app makes jumping around to different projects and different machines easier.…
— mark_l_watson, 2026-10-30 · Herdr has released native app · source

…netes, Argo CD, etc Résumé/CV: Available by email Email: andrew.swe.30@gmail.com Portfolio: https://portfolio-sweandrew.vercel.app/ GitHub: https://github.com/gitiikLocation: St. Louis, Missouri, USA Remote: Remote only Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Go, Python, TypeScript…
— masterdev1030, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…small personal blogs that post a few times a year but are worth reading when they do. Here's the website: findingfishes.vercel.app & One merged RSS feed (if you still use them (: ): findingfishes.vercel.app/feed.xml I'd love suggestions for any blogs I missed!…
— sert_121, 2026-11-03 · Finding Fishes: Hand-picked blogs on LLMs · source

…I, OpenAI API, n8n, Make, Google Apps Script, Google Sheets API (gspread), LINE / Slack bots Résumé/CV: https://kota-hp.vercel.app/en/portfolio/ Email: tamakou435@gmail.com Freelance AI/automation engineer. I build small, production-running systems that connect LLMs to the tools…
— tamakou435, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…ing love arrows at Frankenstein, witches, werewolves and worse. All levels in a single HTML file wrapped in Next.js for Vercel; playable on desktop and mobile. Feel free to leave a comment to let me know what you think of the difficulty curve :)…
— DrDizzle, 2026-10-29 · Love and Frankenstein – A Fun Little Halloween Arcade Game · source

…’s not looking positive for us to be able to compete, so I sure hope we can collaborate https://deep-time-machine-time.vercel.app/…
— intenex, 2026-10-22 · Claude Duet · source

…TML/JS artifacts (and they will retire the custom UI soon) it’s great, you can build apps with JS to test UI, who needs Figma… HTML & CSS is the end result anyway so why design in some proprietary intermediate language?…
— throwaway63467, 2026-11-04 · We're training a Figma-fluent editing model · source

…of models to generate design-system aligned interactive prototypes in HTML/Tailwind... there really isn't a purpose for Figma. I use to love it - now I don't touch it. It doesn't really help my process to have not-HTML to work with. Maybe for mobile apps?…
— vcryan, 2026-11-03 · We're Training a Figma-Fluent Editing Model · source

…k directions (i.e. dragging right should rotate the camera to the right instead of dragging the screen like it might in figma)…
— percentcer, 2026-11-03 · Show HN: Warsaw in voxels – An interactive 3D map of the city centre · source

…ion: India (looking for work from anywhere in the world) Remote: Yes, only remote Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Figma, HTML, CSS Résumé/CV: https://rakeshk.com/files/Resume_Rakesh.pdf Email: akrakesh[at]gmail.com Portfolio: https://rakeshk.com I have 15 years' experience…
— akrakesh, 2026-11-03 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…TypeScript, JavaScript, Astro, Svelte, Vue/Nuxt, Three.js, Electron, Shopify, Python, Docker, Cloudflare, Linux, Figma Résumé/CV: https://malejandro.com/resume Portfolio: https://malejandro.com GitHub: https://github.com/Arecsu Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/m-al…
— arecsu, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

Switched to intellij http scratches ages ago. Then go curl. I remember a bunch of people using postman from a decade to a few years ago. It's been a while since I've seen anyone. Probably people who do it rarely but haven't taken the time to change tools.…
— Neikius, 2026-11-03 · Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data · source

…e what vim-lovers say) and sometimes do it better as they're semantics-aware ("go to function arguments" is possibly in intellij but not really in vim, and vim block selection doesn't work in indented languages like YAML or Python). Recording macros? Intellij has it. Editors don'…
— williamdclt, 2026-11-03 · Show HN: I built a little browser game to practice Vim commands · source

…tween apps, swap and resize windows - all without lifting a finger from the home-row. I spent almost a decade living in IntelliJ. I had many direct conversations with Andy Vlasovskikh (he's the maintainer of IdeaVim then). Gary Bernhard (Destroy All Software, wat guy) once said:…
— iLemming, 2026-10-29 · Emacs Turns 50 · source

I assume the quote is referring to libghostty. In which case a lot of different tools like vs code, Emacs, Gvim, Intellij and other IDEs, even web consoles on stuff like Azure essentially use and reimplement the same core, the idea behind libghostty is to replace those with a com…
— B4uler5, 2026-10-27 · Ghostty 1.4 · source

…but nowadays the thing I want more than anything is either a convergence of all their IDEs via plugins I've been using Intellij IDEA lately. I have pycharm, phpstorm, goland still installed and use them every now and then. I, however, spend a lot more time in claude code in the…
— rovr138, 2026-10-26 · JetBrains Thinkrail · source

I've been using Syncthing + KeePass for a few no this now after leaving Bitwarden. I do find that I often get sync conflicts, though; I think it's because I will open Keepass on my computer, then on my phone while forgetting to close the one on the computer, but I'm not sure. any…
— einhard, 2026-10-16 · What I self-host · source

I use both Restic and Syncthing. I have considered putting encrypted backups on a cloud blob storage, but my preference would be to set up an offsite backup at a relative's house.…
— viceconsole, 2026-10-16 · What I self-host · source

I'm puzzled that OP seems stumped on syncing keepass when they're already using syncthing. I've been using keepass+syncthing for years, and I've never had any issues.…
— seplox, 2026-10-15 · What I self-host · source

…b in git and it was always a pain to keep in sync, but switched back a couple of weeks ago with exactly the same setup, syncthing and KeepassDx also works suprisingly well. mostly i was missing power user features and especially ux for the browser plugin, namely you can't operate…
— jonny2811, 2026-10-10 · Bitwarden Dual License Model · source

…to type is a security nightmare and is not an option. Syncing does not exist and with the constant death and forking of Syncthing on Android, it became unusable to randomly find out my db hasn't synced for a week and now I have to reset everything with a new fork yet again. Bitwa…
— Arrowmaster, 2026-10-10 · Bitwarden Dual License Model · source

…n NYC. Technologies: JavaScript, React, HTML5, CSS3, Python, Three.js, Capacitor, Selenium, Git, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Blender, Adobe Creative Suite Résumé/CV: https://shanelessa.com Email: shane.lessa@gmail.com GitHub: https://github.com/gldstrrbt Seeking: Creative technologist…
— throwaway743, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…ot the approach from Smitner-Studio's tentacle-arm-showcase, a 2D Godot demo. The time I spent modeling them by hand in Blender was 100% worth it. I also made a little Halloween horror movie for it. It's at the top of the page, and the Dock shots in it are the real app. I'd love…
— leonardsouza, 2026-10-30 · Show HN: hyperbin – This Halloween, take out your Trash before monsters move in · source

I love KiCad. My point is that most people would hate KiCad 1.0 just the same as they'd hate Blender 1.0. Critiquing early releases of FOSS is a "throwing stones from glass houses" sort of situation.…
— bigyabai, 2026-10-27 · Everything · source

…it happen at the same time. The animals were created using SDF (signed distance field) sculpting instead of traditional blender models. I wrote the simulation, path finding, and server code myself. Claude Code was very helpful, however, I did personally review and refine all of t…
— kagen, 2026-10-21 · Show HN: A shared 3D Zoo in the browser where everyone sees the same animals · source

…ld that is worth looking at. Let's take open source as an example: No new 3d/2d CAD packages that are more capable than Blender/FreeCad/KiCad, nor Blender/FreeCad all of the sudden became much more capable than they were just few years ago. I also want to point out,that I haven't…
— newprint, 2026-10-19 · I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories · source

…everything it puts out. Overall I think it makes me more effective. On my own time I put a pair of Radeon VIIs into my home server and I've been playing with different setups to run local models. My current favorite is Qwen 3.8 Flash Next running on Strata (I have a two-line PR…
— nfriedly, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…t for battery powered I'm looking closer at BTLE. I actually have 3 ESP32's around the house to act as BTLE proxies for Home Assistant which I can use with OpenDisplay as well. And yes, it's a great form factor, it looks great, and just makes me smile when I walk by one. Once I c…
— joshstrange, 2026-11-02 · $48 e-paper display can be whatever you want it to be · source

…value for money, not so sure nowadays. The reason why I keep it connected to the network (with a traffic rule) is I use home assistant to run automations etc so need at least LAN connectivity.…
— djhworld, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? · source

…mall standalone Rockbox media player. Can handle podcasts or years of music no problem. No internet on the go needed. > Home Assistant: being able to control my home, optimise the energy usage, improve security. I love Home Assistant and I optimize and automate it when I am at ho…
— lrvick, 2026-11-01 · Digital minimalism · source

…e. AntennaPod: the wealth of information and interesting topics I've been exposed to via podcasts is hard to overstate. Home Assistant: being able to control my home, optimise the energy usage, improve security. AI: I can talk to an AI anywhere. Instantly upload a photo, for exa…
— Flere-Imsaho, 2026-10-31 · Digital minimalism · source

> I have played this game many times with Android apps I haven't had this issue myself and fortunately GrapheneOS has its scopes features and more are coming, so it's still possible to use a more private and secure OS without having to cave in like you're saying. For example, Wha…
— other8026, 2026-10-28 · The Advantages of Mobile Linux over AOSP (LineageOS, CrDroid, GrapheneOS, etc.) · source

…viewing the code that I submitted to them. I have a personal beef with how Daniel Micay treats other FOSS projects, but GrapheneOS does a good job of protecting its users. However, I know from personal experience that I always end up installing apps based on surveillance capitali…
— amosbatto, 2026-10-28 · The Advantages of Mobile Linux over AOSP (LineageOS, CrDroid, GrapheneOS, etc.) · source

I use GrapheneOS on my Pixel and it gets very dim. Also, I have the night mode (orange tint) cranked way up - something that the stock OS should allow you to do.…
— tosser811, 2026-10-26 · OLED iPad Mini · source

I just wanted to mention that my criticism of the original post comes from a place of love for GrapheneOS and its mission. I really wanted to know what the official 12 banks are because I want to consider using one of those banks.…
— left-struck, 2026-10-24 · Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS · source

…y patches for many years, but it's trending in that direction. Around 90% of banking apps are currently compatible with GrapheneOS. It would likely be more like 50% if we hadn't put a lot of effort into improving compatibility with a lot of workarounds for the bugs and problemati…
— grapheneos, 2026-10-24 · Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS · source

…erl, Python, Bash, Git, Express, Mocha, HTML/Javascript/CSS, ES2015-2020, OAuth 2.0, React, JQuery, Bootstrap, Netlify, Podman, Docker, Lambda, Serverless, Message Queues, Stripe, Linux, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Nginx, GitHub Actions, Gemini, Ollama. Résumé/CV: On request via em…
— mjgs, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2026) · source

…erl, Python, Bash, Git, Express, Mocha, HTML/Javascript/CSS, ES2015-2020, OAuth 2.0, React, JQuery, Bootstrap, Netlify, Podman, Docker, Lambda, Serverless, Message Queues, Stripe, Linux, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Nginx, GitHub Actions, Gemini, Ollama. Résumé/CV: On request via em…
— mjgs, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…to relocate: No Technologies: End-to-end Devops/SRE -- general POSIX sysadmin stuff, modern systemd slash linux, Docker/Podman/Virtualization/etc, CI/CD (mostly Gitlab), managing different kinds of private software forges & repositories, DB clusters (Postgresql & co.), observabil…
— apt-get, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…how and what you're managing on it. VPS/VM? Debian is a great choice. Use it as base and run your software via systemd+podman if you want the most up to date stuff, Debian tends do lag a bit. It is very low maintenance. Bare metal? Fedora Atomic is awesome. It does require an up…
— rochacon, 2026-11-02 · WTF Ubuntu? · source

This is the primary selling point of podman to me actually: If you run any non-standard firewall rules (in my case I use virt-manager to run a handful of VMs using a bridge so each VM can get an IP directly on my router's subnet), some stuff may suddenly break because Docker tak…
— freedomben, 2026-10-23 · Docker is weird · source

…aftsmanship anyway. The end-user doesn't see any difference whether I use microservices or hexagonal design or react or htmx or how I structure the code or which language I use. All they see is the design and the stability. Since the average developer was terrible at design anywa…
— TonyStr, 2026-11-03 · Resisting Cognitive Surrender · source

…o Technologies: Python, Django (DRF, multi-DB routing), PostgreSQL, Redis, TypeScript, React, TanStack, shadcn/ui, Vue, HTMX, Docker, AWS (ECS Fargate, RDS, SQS, EventBridge, CloudFront), Terraform, GitHub Actions, n8n, Claude Code Résumé/CV: https://mansan.dev (PDF on request) E…
— youboll, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

Anecdotally, sveltekit 2 was super quick to use for me. I tried building a somewhat interactive app with htmx and found the user experience was often incorrect on the Claude 4 family models. I switched to sveltekit 2 and it produced what wanted almost immediately. Features wer…
— smrtinsert, 2026-11-01 · The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks · source

…of RAM at peak (live speed dating events with emails and heavy Hotwire/Turbo Streams use). I converted it to Loco with HTMX and the app now uses about 60MB at peak and benchmarks show 30x the traffic possible on the same hardware. What more my CI/CD pipeline runs about 5 times f…
— xutopia, 2026-10-21 · Rust off Rails: The opinionated web stack for the AI era · source

…Open source versions of their apps are coming soon, as demos. The stack differs from things you're probably aware of: - HTMX - server owns logic and swaps fragments. Quark owns orchestration on the client, with the document as the only state. - Lit and other web component framewo…
— joe-excom, 2026-10-08 · Show HN: Nucleus- web apps where document is the state, driven by CSS-like rules · source

…Pro Mac mini without needing to kill all other apps to free up the RAM for the inference. So I built a runtime based on llama.cpp that uses SSD offloading and Lookahead Expert Scheduling. I introduced optimizations like adaptive caching and prefill batching, I/O and GPU work over…
— davidetroiani, 2026-11-03 · Show HN: Run faster MoE inference on Mac with less RAM · source

It is basically a gutted ggml/llama.cpp, but I just had the agents build highly optimized version for two specific model quants with zero consideration or compatibility for anything else.…
— bitexploder, 2026-11-03 · V100 SXM2 pinout and NVLink reference · source

…but I have an inference PC with an RTX 3060 12GB and 32GB DDR4. I use it to run Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and Gemma4-26B-A4B with llama.cpp. Just in chat mode.…
— roosgit, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: What hardware are you using to run local LLMs? · source

…corpus of my favorite cook and homebrewing books. All you need is source material, postgress (pgvect) and some compute (llama.cpp with a decent chat model for chunking and labeling, an embedding and a rerank model. or some $ to use those via a router). When the corpus is indexed,…
— pampa, 2026-10-29 · Zombie stats: Where the numbers AI quotes come from · source

…he call as that seems to avoid the issue. Restarting llama-server also seems to make the issue go away so it might be a llama.cpp bug, but TBH i haven't found a clear repro case aside from it happening when i interrupt it while it is thinking. I think it is more common when the c…
— badsectoracula, 2026-10-25 · Five Qwen3.8-27B models match Fable 5 Using GVS5H Harness · source

…clude style/css editors (with the ability to save and reload styles later) for accessibility. Since we don't have that, uBlock Origin does a lot of heavy lifting, and can add a dark mode to HN and other sites. I'd share my ruleset, however, I am missing one. Before I switched PCs…
— eek2121, 2026-11-04 · Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3 · source

…ind of assumed it was sites trying to avoid being scraped to death for training data. Alternatively, I use Firefox with uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger - so it might be that.…
— andyjohnson0, 2026-11-03 · Getting hit with "Prove you are a human" at every other website · source

Note that an alternative in those situations is using uBlock Origin instead of NoScript, and then configure "Medium Mode" [1] So, when blocking javascript (which uBo can also do of course) does not work, enable javascript with Medium Mode (blocks 3th party scripts and frames.) (p…
— DavideNL, 2026-11-03 · uBlock Origin filter to block autoplay videos in TechCrunch · source

In uBlock Origin, I allow everything except 3rd party frames, then I use uMatrix to whitelist acceptable domains and requests. These are the only privacy add-ons I use and they are amazing.…
— bborrez, 2026-11-03 · uBlock Origin filter to block autoplay videos in TechCrunch · source

…d affiliate codes. The only arrangement I've seen that works over the long term is open source maintained lists - like uBlock Origin. This would be far safer than what we have now. It would not just make snooping much harder; blocking access by default (even from internal devic…
— rstuart4133, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: uBlock Origin for the IoT devices in my house? · source

I’ve never used iCloud. I hate Apple but I hate Google more. Instead of iCloud I use WebDav, CalDav, Bitwarden and NextCloud. Contacts, calendar, passwords and photos that I control. I recommend the same to others but I can count on one hand who has actually gone away from iCloud…
— thatonehack, 2026-10-24 · Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone · source

I use nextcloud to sync my own keepass database across my devices. Both nextcloud and keepassxc are open source. Please explain how self hosting open source software is locking me into a vendor. If the sky falls and strongbox ceases working with mac/iOS I can use android and lin…
— willis936, 2026-10-14 · Passkeys are not a trap · source

…this was the most resource intensive service. It's much better now. I do not recommend due to spam waves. - headscale - Nextcloud, OnlyOffice, Kanboard: for productivity - Prometheus, grafana & monitorix: monitoring, plus netdata aggregating data from other nodes - Open Sondage,…
— MayeulC, 2026-10-09 · Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? · source

I really wish they had a SOHO offering, would love to run this with NextCloud and personal projects from home.…
— claytongulick, 2026-10-09 · Our $445M Series D · source

…flare tunnels. This is a lot of compute and very little power use. One for personal self-hosted projects: languagetool, nextcloud, hister, syncthing, restic backups, vaultwarden, windmill. Another for public facing web apps I host through cloudflare tunnels. As well as public fac…
— wraptile, 2026-10-09 · Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? · source

…ystemcrafters, joshblais, protesilaos, sacha chua, mickey peterson (and mastering emacs). God, I haven't even mentioned org-mode or magit (though magit is still a bit rough, I'm used to lazygit - in some ways using magit is making me understand some things about how git operates…
— wormius, 2026-10-29 · Emacs Turns 50 · source

I love emacs and have been using it daily for about 5 years now. Many people have mentioned magit and org mode. I just want to give another shout out to consult.el which is a wonderful way to grep and search through text. Happy birthday emacs!…
— lukehandcool, 2026-10-28 · Emacs Turns 50 · source

My biggest regret in life was that I was introduced to vim before emacs and got really comfortable with it. Did not realize that everything I was building in my vim configs to make it better was already default in emacs i.e dired, compile mode, magit, org mode, etc. If I wasn't a…
— lopotubez, 2026-10-28 · Emacs Turns 50 · source

About 10+ years ago I found a guide on Helm [0] and a guide on Org-mode [1] when I was just getting into Emacs. This helped me move on from using Spacemacs to making my own configuration. I no longer use Helm (I'm doing Vertico/Orderless/Consult), but I've stuck with Org-mode sin…
— cyrialize, 2026-10-28 · Emacs Turns 50 · source

I've used Emacs and org-mode for about half a decade now and I find it inescapable. I hate that I love it, and love that I hate it. Things like Neorg (which looks unmaintained) gave me hope to find another plaintext ecosystem that handles tasks and notes very well, but I haven't…
— xz18r, 2026-10-10 · I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again · source

…nnects to a avr that handles inputs and 5.1.2 speakers Nvidia shield with hdmi-cec to turn on/off the receiver and tv. Jellyfin, android tv app for cable company, YouTube sans ads and projectivy launcher (Google one sucks). You can update firmware via usb stick. Would get an Ap…
— zeagle, 2026-11-01 · Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? · source

I use jellyfin remotely with tailscale. It was trivial to set up. There's probably a dozen other holepunching mesh VPN approaches that would also work. Not to mention Iroh is in the mix now too.…
— knowaveragejoe, 2026-10-27 · Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier · source

…Plex Pass and they still feel entitled to put advertisements in front of my local media content. I've since switched to Jellyfin.…
— tstrimple, 2026-10-22 · Plex laid off the whole player team · source

…east fork/pin it from some version and merge things from upstream that I want, which is the reason why I was looking at Jellyfin.…
— rumblefrog, 2026-10-21 · Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer · source

Question for Jellyfin users - how's the support for non-tech people that were using your library? Like my parents use my Plex, and getting them switched to something else is going to be a hell ride.…
— jmuguy, 2026-10-21 · Plex laid off the whole player team · source

…5B A3B model at 30 tok/s using SSD Streaming and my agent is instant with no latency and can do everything I ask. I use Aider for programming, exa for searching.. I'm happy with it.…
— giovanniwants, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

…ring practical experiments, usage patterns, step-by-step guides, model comparisons, AI coding tool evaluations (Cursor, Aider, Cline, Windsurf, etc.). A large part of my work is *exploratory*: navigating large and messy information spaces, testing things hands-on, comparing diffe…
— dan_voronov, 2026-09-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026) · source

…center for engineering teams running coding agents. THE PROBLEM Every coding agent tool I've used (Claude Code, Cursor, Aider, Cline) assumes the person running the agent is the only human in the loop. For real teams, that is never true. Agent work disappears into terminal tabs.…
— lcavadas, 2026-08-08 · AFK – Command center for teams running coding agents · source

…doing it all over again. I've been building my own harnesses since before that word was so common though, even before Aider was released.…
— samplifier, 2026-08-05 · Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage · source

…utilisateurs d’échapper à la collecte massive de données personnelles qui s’opère dans les smartphones du marché, pas d’aider les pédocriminels à passer sous les radars de la justice. Translation: But above all, we must not fight the wrong battle: /e/OS allows its users to escape…
— microtonal, 2026-07-23 · Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support · source

…of Windows Terminal, which fully supports Kitty protocols, but I'm still envious of people using Kitty directly or even Ghostty.…
— miroljub, 2026-11-04 · Kitty 0.50 · source

I've used kitty before and really liked it. I am considering switching back to it now on Linux. I've been using Ghostty on macOS and loving it there, but it's quite bad on Linux. It keeps segfaulting, takes a long time to actually start, I keep getting weird glitches whenever I h…
— quibono, 2026-11-04 · Kitty 0.50 · source

I really love Kitty, it took me only about 5 minutes to migrate from Ghostty. just wish the used this icon as default: https://github.com/DinkDonk/kitty-icon…
— dagi3d, 2026-11-04 · Kitty 0.50 · source

I use multiple terminals. I like Ghostty and Kitty. I the past I tried multiple others like Guake, Allacritty, xterm, Gnome Terminal, ITerm (when I was forced to use a Mac), Windows Terminal (I am now forced to work on Windows). And of all terminals I still prefer Kitty. There is…
— ivolimmen, 2026-11-04 · Kitty 0.50 · source

I've been using Rex for the past week, almost entirely through the macOS client and it's been great. Replaced ghostty+herdr (the TUI) for me. I have its local server and an instance of the alpha linux server on my cloud based dev box, hooked up via my tailnet. I've played around…
— CrompyBlompers, 2026-10-30 · Herdr has released native app · source

…s, joshblais, protesilaos, sacha chua, mickey peterson (and mastering emacs). God, I haven't even mentioned org-mode or magit (though magit is still a bit rough, I'm used to lazygit - in some ways using magit is making me understand some things about how git operates better). The…
— wormius, 2026-10-29 · Emacs Turns 50 · source

…uh, there's literally ongoing threads about built-in LLM support in emacs.devel, the latest one is not even a week old. Magit being slow is almost entirely git subprocess spawn and output-parsing overhead, which exists in any git porcelain, not something specific to Emacs or elis…
— iLemming, 2026-10-29 · Emacs Turns 50 · source

I love emacs and have been using it daily for about 5 years now. Many people have mentioned magit and org mode. I just want to give another shout out to consult.el which is a wonderful way to grep and search through text. Happy birthday emacs!…
— lukehandcool, 2026-10-28 · Emacs Turns 50 · source

…hat everything I was building in my vim configs to make it better was already default in emacs i.e dired, compile mode, magit, org mode, etc. If I wasn't able to multiplex with tmux I would have switched to emacs a long time ago.…
— lopotubez, 2026-10-28 · Emacs Turns 50 · source

…are really good. Emacs is maintained and developed actively and there are many external packages which are impressive. Magit and ghostel are good examples of packages that I use on a daily basis to get my work done. Recently, AI completely changed how I use Emacs, and in a very…
— jwr, 2026-10-28 · Emacs Turns 50 · source

Running a synology router. Don't recommend. Will be adding a NIC to my Proxmox host and running a OPNSense VM in the future.…
— spaldingcactus, 2026-11-03 · Ask HN: What router do you use at home? · source

…neer (1-Year Contract | Onsite) Designing and maintaining isolated network environments for automation, virtualization (Proxmox SDN), and on-prem Kubernetes clusters. - Stack/Focus: SONiC (SonicNOS), Edgecore DCS202, SSE-C4632 100G switching, Linux administration, L2/L3 segmentat…
— fires10, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026) · source

In my case it's a fairly boring proxmox server. The KVM VM started as a bare bones debian install and then I added xorg and xfce4 and the tiger vnc server. I have a GUI on it for when I want to use it that way (in screen dimensions that are a 1:1 mapping of the native resolution…
— walrus01, 2026-10-23 · OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents · source

…ering, snapshots, and more. Plus, Stéphane Graber is super responsive on the forums and issue tracker. I bounced off of Proxmox, and can't recommend Incus more for hypervisor-type scenarios.…
— radlad, 2026-10-23 · Docker is weird · source

…s that run outside the cluster (ha-proxy, jellyfin) are all managed declaratively. At some point I had thought of using proxmox with lxc but I am very happy with NixOS.…
— bengalister, 2026-10-16 · What I self-host · source

I recommend Bitwarden. Cheaper and just as good as 1Password IMHO.…
— jnrk, 2026-10-30 · Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews' · source

I don't think they have one, I use 1password. Note sure why email and a password manager would be linked?…
— grey-area, 2026-10-30 · Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews' · source

> I’m getting so many 1Password prompts for agents pulling env variables out of it and with very little context of what is being accessed by who This is a one-sentence horror story. I almost can't believe someone would let this happen, unless the 1Password account is not importan…
— caaqil, 2026-10-30 · Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance · source

…kube/config, ~/.ssh etc into a password-manager. You can tell Claude to adjust the config files to get the secrets from 1Password when they are needed with TouchID requirements etc.…
— thecopy, 2026-10-30 · Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance · source

…ion, it needs access to a browser, so I set up camoufox. - It needs to log in to the compensation portal, so I set up a 1Password vault and gave it access to select credentials. - To send me updates, it needs a gateway, so I set up a WhatsApp bridge. So at this point, I've got an…
— sksksk, 2026-10-22 · Claude Duet · source

…eir work, by showing what tickets they opened, what improvements they land upstream. With this march across clickhouse, duckdb, now trino, I'd love to know what if any places the team worked with upstream, what improvements got tried. I'm pretty ok with the march across products…
— jauntywundrkind, 2026-11-02 · Moving our warehouse off DuckDB · source

Hi HN, I'm Isaac. This is Duckstring, an open source data engineering platform, using DuckDB as the engine. I've built it to address some of the main frustrations I've had in my years as a data engineer: modularising logic so that it can grow in complexity over time, methods for…
— isaac-harvey, 2026-11-01 · Show HN: Duckstring – Pull-orchestrated data pipelines on DuckDB · source

…often have to do work on multiple csv and excel files, joins and filters etc. I hate excel but am fine with SQL. With a duckdb session in dbeaver, I can literally select, project, and join the files on disk as if they were tables. It saves so much time and fuss For bigger integra…
— Nihilartikel, 2026-10-22 · DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal” · source

> does duckdb support querying custom storage formats? No, this is still parquet being loaded in. The "trick" is running through sort order combinations which result in maximum packing in a Dremel style data format (like Parquet). Here's the trick explained in enough detail to un…
— gopalv, 2026-10-22 · DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal” · source

…rm/infrastructure, not because it performs better. For instance people on Databricks can sometimes find it hard to use DuckDB on large machines, or they're just more familiar with Spark. For a new user who has flexibility over where to run their workloads, we'd always recommend…
— RobinL, 2026-10-21 · DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal” · source

1. I've been using the $100 github copilot tier but am looking for something cheaper, as my usage is waning somewhat. I like to hop between models for comparison, but openrouter always seems to end up being way more expensive for the flagship models. I also keep a GPT Plus subscr…
— grep_name, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

…it very capable. At work I use T3 Code as well, but it isn't connected to my personal machines or subscriptions and use Github Copilot in T3 Code via ACP. Model choice is similar, but for more involved tasks for architecture analysis or design, big features that touch a lot of in…
— peepee1982, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

I've heard that folks using using a mid-tier Anthropic model like Sonnet 5.5 easily run into limits. When I use GitHub Copilot (for work) with Anthropic models I can easily rack up quite a significant bill. This is why I'm comparing value for the money. While Google may not have…
— anoojb, 2026-10-20 · Ask HN: Best value/money AI coding plan bundle? · source

Personally at home I use the free github copilot and then openrouter when that runs out. Last month I used $0.90 of openrouter. Zero so far this month. When my bill starts hitting double digits I'll consider options. Different matter at work but even there we are paying for API c…
— slyall, 2026-10-19 · If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on? · source

…r languages where it fits. On the LLM front, it's been a fascinating journey for me. I started with the private beta of Github Copilot. I was an instant convert for the "better code completion" aspect. But my first attempts with coding agents were rough enough that I stayed away.…
— rented_mule, 2026-10-13 · 'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey · source

…pen up another world for you. I've done both sides, and I don't recommend putting it off. Even just 10 minutes a day of anki + tae kim's grammar guide will help. Anyway, you're a curious fellow. FWIW, I'll be in Japan soon again (I visit frequently). If you really are that open,…
— ashkankiani, 2026-10-22 · Claude Duet · source

…age?" and BOOM ... I get an explanation. And then I can just randomly have it quiz me on stuff as sort of a "poor man's Anki" (don't worry, I still use actual Anki as well). To point 2... I've recently been doing some research in the area of neuromorphic computing. Now just to be…
— mindcrime, 2026-10-02 · AI Makes Me Sad · source

…into this kind of stuff over the summer. I haven't written it up yet, but I'll share some highlights below. I realized Anki was optimized for the opposite of the problems I actually had. Anki's optimized to minimize study time. It does this by maximizing difficulty. For me, this…
— andai, 2026-09-25 · Show HN: Make math automatic with Mathy · source

…that script, and make sentences with 10-20 words that I never used in sentences before. All the sentences are saved in Anki, where I have now around 7000 german sentences, 3000 in spanish. I also watch youtube videos with closed caption. The only thing this not taught me was spe…
— cuvert, 2026-09-20 · Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy · source

…il I tried to read a book that I felt like I was making real progress. Highlighting words in Kindle, exporting them to Anki, then feeding back my progress to my tutor was fiddly and not a good use of my time. Also practicing my speaking once a day wasn't enough. So I built an ap…
— nickreffitt, 2026-09-14 · Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) · source

More than likely Plex realizes where their money comes from. It's not streamlining personal video content playback. That's how they built their reputation, but they make their money on integration deals and filling your home screen with other people's content. I paid for Plex Pas…
— tstrimple, 2026-10-22 · Plex laid off the whole player team · source

…against things like "Hey, this company decided to remove this feature that I use a lot (cough cough, watch together on Plex), or put something behind a paid wall where it was previously free". With open source, I can at least fork/pin it from some version and merge things from u…
— rumblefrog, 2026-10-21 · Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer · source

+1 for MusicAssistant. I have been using it for about 2 weeks with Plex as the source, but MA as the player after "we" (my wife) decided Spotify is too expensive. Handing off between devices is my current pain point with it. It can group players so that you can do multi-room sy…
— linuxdaemon, 2026-10-21 · Plex laid off the whole player team · source

…estion for Jellyfin users - how's the support for non-tech people that were using your library? Like my parents use my Plex, and getting them switched to something else is going to be a hell ride.…
— jmuguy, 2026-10-21 · Plex laid off the whole player team · source

…tanding (and the last time I tried) is that Jellyfin lacks in this department quite a bit. That and ubiquitous clients. Plex client is available almost everywhere and overall, Plex mostly "just works". The latest Apple TV client changes have me hot and there are things I don't lo…
— joshstrange, 2026-10-21 · Plex laid off the whole player team · source

…s: TypeScript, Javascript, Node.js, Claude code, Salesforce, Apex, Atlassian, Cloudflare, Microsoft Azure, Splunk, SQL, Supabase Website: charliescholey.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charliescholey/ Email: Please use my website - https://charliescholey.com/#cont…
— Chazifraz, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…echnologies: Claude Code, Codex, Google Antigravity, Python, FastAPI, Node/Fastify, JavaScript, React, Postgres/Prisma, Supabase, Redis/BullMQ, Playwright, Docker, Linux, Cloudflare, Moodle Résumé/CV: github.com/manuelleal (CV on request) Email: ddiddimmo@gmail.com I build deploy…
— christiam27, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…cover the whole world, not just Europe and the US, but I am still adding events on a weekly basis. Stack: React + Vite, Supabase, Vercel. I'd love feedback on what's confusing, what's missing, and any dates or facts I got wrong. Cheers!…
— historytape, 2026-10-20 · [dead] · source

…for now, I'm hoping to add a paid tier at some point. Letterboxd was a big inspiration. Tech stack: Next.js on Vercel, Supabase. iOS app is almost finished, it's mostly a SwiftUI shell around server-rendered pages. This has been an adventure in seeing how far I can push LLM codi…
— aleshh, 2026-10-19 · Show HN: Flipper – an album-first library for music streaming · source

…orkers. HF spaces is a good option that I had found back then. Also, I recommend having a separate backend service like supabase with HF as if your server is inactive for 24-48 hours, the storage could get wiped out so backend should be seperated. One of the biggest things that I…
— Imustaskforhelp, 2026-10-15 · AWS Lambda Web Functions · source

…Built This When building autonomous agents or configuring tools in coding environments like Cursor, Claude Desktop, and Windsurf, we ran into two recurring bottlenecks: 1. *The Account / Credit Card Friction*: Autonomous agents cannot complete KYC, enter SMS verification codes, o…
— diogenes_l402, 2026-11-03 · Show HN: Diogenes – Account-less MCP Gateway to 45 Gemini models and guardrails · source

…hat it does: Tcha sits as a transparent, sub-millisecond reverse proxy between your host agent (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, custom agents) and MCP tool servers: 1. In-Line MCP Reverse Proxy: Intercepts tools/call JSON-RPC streams in flight with <= 1ms latency overhead. If a…
— tchadev, 2026-10-19 · [dead] · source

I been working and making things with AI agents since Windsurf days, here's what works for me after experimenting and working for a while with these things. As far as the agent goes I find whatever the latest OpenAI model is out worked best for me. This company has burned me the…
— nowittyusername, 2026-09-17 · Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others · source

I pay for it (mostly because they grandfathered me from the old prices)! I used to use windsurf as my main editor until they changed their pricing model. Now i use it just to burn my weekly tokens on fable/astra if i remember to that on a task and that's it.…
— PolCPP, 2026-09-10 · Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra · source

…silos. You can switch seamlessly from Gemini in Google Antigravity to Claude 3.7 in Claude Code to GPT-4o in Cursor or Windsurf mid-project—your agents pick up exactly where the others left off. A few architectural details: - Under the hood, it's a zero-latency hybrid retrieval…
— timgordontg, 2026-09-07 · Show HN: Engrim – A universal, local-first SQLite memory engine for AI CLIs · source

I recommend Bitwarden. Cheaper and just as good as 1Password IMHO.…
— jnrk, 2026-10-30 · Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews' · source

I’ve never used iCloud. I hate Apple but I hate Google more. Instead of iCloud I use WebDav, CalDav, Bitwarden and NextCloud. Contacts, calendar, passwords and photos that I control. I recommend the same to others but I can count on one hand who has actually gone away from iCloud…
— thatonehack, 2026-10-24 · Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone · source

…, they take you as a trustworthy partner and want to grow with you. Trust is very important and I feel so bitter paying Bitwarden, Adobe, and all the other enshittified stacks that 30-100% uplift on the base plan to get SSO. I also love my homelab stuff and it's a sour taste when…
— arcza, 2026-10-19 · Ousted Savannah police officer gave ICE agent husband access to Flock system · source

I've been using Syncthing + KeePass for a few no this now after leaving Bitwarden. I do find that I often get sync conflicts, though; I think it's because I will open Keepass on my computer, then on my phone while forgetting to close the one on the computer, but I'm not sure. any…
— einhard, 2026-10-16 · What I self-host · source

…scan or a secret you manually type in, which then gives you some numbers you use later, and that's all it should be. > Bitwarden also syncs TOTP. Given it's the same client, why push folks to opt for a provably weaker protocol with higher potential for user harm? TOTP doesn't ha…
— Telaneo, 2026-10-15 · Passkeys are not a trap · source

Objectively? I use Libreoffice and I ... objectively... find it slightly less of a pain in the ass.…
— jrm4, 2026-10-25 · What Adobe v ArtCraft teaches us · source

…oys. It seems impossible to do anything even moderately complex with them. Especially form design. I've installed Linux+LibreOffice on a spare machine at work that I use occasionally, to keep from tearing my hair out. As much as I despise Microsoft, I admit that their Office suit…
— encom, 2026-10-24 · Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office · source

…. You’re reversing the order. It was not “I recommend this” but “If you’re gonna do it I can’t stop you”. > If I forked LibreOffice If all you are doing is cloning the repo in GitHub then sure, you aren’t competing. But LibreOffice is a great example because it is specifically a…
— dpark, 2026-10-17 · I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets · source

…- with tools for redlining, commenting, converting, and reviewing diffs. It's pretty fast, and doesn't rely on pandoc, LibreOffice, or any other external dependencies to be installed on the host system. In my tests it also lets agents get certain tasks done faster and more effic…
— artursapek, 2026-10-13 · Show HN: Revise CLI · source

…fer their office suite as Linux native apps, and they make it near impossible to use the Windows apps under Wine, I use LibreOffice. And it works really well. I can use it and exchange documents with people using Word without problem in the enormous majority of the cases. And the…
— sombragris, 2026-10-11 · Open-source Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications · source

…obo manually. I had another which would take the URL of the frontmost browser tab, download and convert it to EPUB with pandoc, then it’d reuse the same kepubify and rclone steps. That one doesn’t work that well nowadays, with all the websites getting harder to access programatic…
— latexr, 2026-11-04 · Kitty 0.50 · source

…manage the Markdown source in Git and Emacs. For typesetting—I cannot abide crappy word-processor output—I used to use Pandoc to generate LaTeX markup and run LuaLaTeX to produce PDFs. But that took several seconds. Now, I use Typst to go straight from Markdown to PDF files. It’…
— tmoertel, 2026-11-01 · Novellas with Groff · source

I use this all the time, especially for epub to pdf. Tried doing it with pandoc and the result was similar but less good. (I like it when the result is more good.) It's amazing how many formats they support. It's kind of strange that this isn't built into the computer, though. Wi…
— andai, 2026-11-01 · Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother · source

…intliminator [2] (which uses the Haartija CSS framework [3]) and have currently ended up using CopyAsMarkdown [4] (with Pandoc) and WebToEpub [5] [1] https://www.printfriendly.com/ [2] https://github.com/CSS-Tricks/The-Printliminator [3] https://github.com/vladocar/Hartija---CSS-…
— pidgeon_lover, 2026-10-26 · Websites Should Be Printable · source

…ocuments - with tools for redlining, commenting, converting, and reviewing diffs. It's pretty fast, and doesn't rely on pandoc, LibreOffice, or any other external dependencies to be installed on the host system. In my tests it also lets agents get certain tasks done faster and mo…
— artursapek, 2026-10-13 · Show HN: Revise CLI · source

…he basics. It's extremely scriptable. One of favourite uses of it is its 'popup' feature. Combining the tmux popup with fzf creates a crazy opportunity of whats possible. Highly suggest learning these tools; literally just point an agent at my comment here and ask it what one cou…
— absoluteunit1, 2026-10-19 · Tmux and Claude Code: Sessions, Send-Keys, and the Ceiling · source

…. It's totally fine to prefer NerdTree over the native netrw but it's not like you can't do file exploring. Hell, I use fzf most times (`:GFiles`). But what I don't like is when people confidently say "x can't do y" when it can. I'll give people a break if it requires plugins or…
— godelski, 2026-09-11 · Show HN: Toast, a by default in-terminal IDE · source

…en using since forever: gi() { git branch --sort=-committerdate |\ grep -v '^\*' | cut -d' ' -f3 | fzf |\ xargs git checkout } fzf handles the TUI part…
— petesergeant, 2026-08-31 · Sort branches by last commit date · source

I love this little fzf bash function that I wrote a few years ago: https://gist.github.com/thomasaarholt/141df779f3f16b641701b4... It opens a fuzzy finder window showing the branches you have in the repo, sorted by recency. Also shows the latest committer and the date. Hit enter…
— tomtom1337, 2026-08-30 · Sort branches by last commit date · source

Not OP but, I regularly use : - yazi as a file explorer - lazygit for git - tmux/zellij as multiplexers - fzf left and right for a bunch of utils (terminal history, switching between projects in zellij/tmux when working in multi-project workspaces, etc) - neovim as a te…
— folkrav, 2026-08-22 · Stop Making TUIs · source

…t be ready as a drop-in Photoshop replacement for professionals yet, and I didn't say it was. I said it was better than GIMP 3 (and all other free image editors, for that matter). I've been using pirated Photoshop for random image edits for most of my life, and Photocraft does ex…
— Aozora7, 2026-11-02 · OccupySaaS · source

…HSL color models all broken and useless? Yes, I know their limitations. But of all graphical software I use daily. only GIMP supports LCh, and using it is pretty unintuitive. I see how position-anchor and stuff are coll for complex layouts, but they have poor support on low-power…
— nine_k, 2026-10-30 · Pico CSS is no longer maintained · source

…nes written in C are the most reliable (such as vim, bash, coreutils, terminals, X11¹, ... also larger software such as gimp, blender). Over decades I literally can't experience a single crash! ¹ The exception is the Nouveau driver, but without it X was also perfectly stable for…
— uecker, 2026-10-13 · A Modern Web App in C · source

…ich at least follows a Windows UI convention. Much easier to use than Photoshop; but I have not used it for many years. Gimp: tried it. Rotted out UI, and an absolutely incomprehensible UI convention (if any). I cannot use it and will not take the time to learn it. On Linux, I ve…
— rerdavies, 2026-10-08 · What ArtCraft's Vibe-Coded Apps Say About Adobe · source

…to make something they want, not something we've all been grateful for but bemoaned as a comparise. For example, I love GIMP but holy shit it was a downgrade from Adobe in most ways.GIMP should stay GIMP, though, I wouldn't want my tools being completely overhauled in terms of UI…
— loufe, 2026-10-08 · What ArtCraft's Vibe-Coded Apps Say About Adobe · source

I'd love to NOT expose my services to the internet, but I often share stuff from opencloud/seafile or immich. If somebody has a convinient (for non-technical people I share stuff with) solution, please share because as the author of the post said, with AI assisted hacking now I'm…
— ssernikk, 2026-10-16 · What I self-host · source

I also self host some services: keycloak, forgejo, home assistant, immich, grafana/prometheus, jellyfin, pureftp (to store my surveillance cameras videos), and a vibecoded financial app, and soon hermes agent on a 2023 laptop. I chose to run most of them on Kubernetes since I am…
— bengalister, 2026-10-16 · What I self-host · source

- Navidrome - Jellyfin - Vaultwarden - Immich - pi agent. I use it through tmux and iSH on my iPhone - librechat. nice UI but honestly I probably jsut use pi more often - copyparty. to visually inspect whatever I create with pi, and to access my documents, to upload files I need…
— paweladamczuk, 2026-10-09 · Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? · source

…s for the IPv6 addresses using regular DNS, which makes things very convenient. I also run a few personal web services: Immich, Gitea, Bookstack, Jellyfin, and more. That cheap VPS couldn't handle it. I run the services on a computer in my home office. Caddy runs on the VPS wi…
— ahf8Aithaex7Nai, 2026-10-09 · Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? · source

For example I use a PiHole with local DNS records for my services like immich.lan, paperless.lan, etc.…
— yonatan8070, 2026-10-09 · New gTLD Application for .lan · source

…king at flamegraphs. UTV is a fork of openrv which is an older release of the commercial RV. Like many things it uses ffmpeg and also native readers and writers for certain formats. Allowed me to get it to 8k@60fps buttery smooth playback with hardware acceleration. If you a…
— mcoliver, 2026-10-29 · H.264 Is Magic (2016) · source

I use claude with remotion and ffmpeg to create final video.…
— aavisangle, 2026-10-18 · Survey: How do you create the video demo for your project or product? · source

…for creating the smallest size (10x+ smaller) while still retaining good quality and even supports PNG transparency: ffmpeg -i {input_file} -filter_complex "[0:v]format=pix_fmts=yuva444p,split[color][alpha];[alpha]alphaextract[alpha_chan]" -map "[color]" -map "[alpha_chan]" -c…
— Metricon, 2026-10-16 · JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases · source

…r CDP, while WebdriverIO and Appium handle native apps through WinAppDriver. A small Go agent captures the desktop with FFmpeg and streams it over WebRTC for live viewing and recordings. That separation lets a single test move between a browser and a native Windows app without re…
— jadenlemmon, 2026-10-14 · Running Windows desktop tests from Linux with disposable VMs · source

Location: Israel Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Depends. Maybe. Technologies: Python, AI/LLM/MCP, Grafana, N8n, GitHub Workflows, Okta, Terraform, some Ruby and some Crystal Résumé/CV: https://hxii.github.io or https://0xff.nu Email: my HN username [at] 0xff.nu I made my way th…
— hxii, 2026-11-03 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…ues. - CI/CD and GitOps workflows using GitHub Actions and Flux. - Monitoring, alerting, and tracing with tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Alertmanager, Jaeger, and OpenTelemetry. - DNS, TLS, and Cloudflare. Strong AWS networking knowledge, including VPC design, routing, privat…
— lucasrattz, 2026-11-03 · Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026) · source

…ab), managing different kinds of private software forges & repositories, DB clusters (Postgresql & co.), observability (Grafana stack), everything k8s. Software Engineering -- Python, Web Stack (I enjoy both Vue & SvelteKit), Java (Spring and its ecosystem), Ruby + Clojure + Rust…
— apt-get, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

I also self host some services: keycloak, forgejo, home assistant, immich, grafana/prometheus, jellyfin, pureftp (to store my surveillance cameras videos), and a vibecoded financial app, and soon hermes agent on a 2023 laptop. I chose to run most of them on Kubernetes since I am…
— bengalister, 2026-10-16 · What I self-host · source

…ow. I do not recommend due to spam waves. - headscale - Nextcloud, OnlyOffice, Kanboard: for productivity - Prometheus, grafana & monitorix: monitoring, plus netdata aggregating data from other nodes - Open Sondage, Framadate, I hate money: for friend groups - Vaultwarden: passwo…
— MayeulC, 2026-10-09 · Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? · source

…arket forecasts and investment opportunities. Roadmap? Nowhere to be seen. I also recently had a feature PR merged into Backblaze's open-source genblaze SDK. The docs told users in several places to hash fetched assets themselves for provenance verification, but no shipped tool a…
— prman_, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…uppose I didn’t specify exactly what I would recommend to someone who thinks it’s too hard, so here is that: 1. Install Backblaze. This is basically fire and forget. 2. (1) is enough for most people, but if interested (and on a Mac, which is what I’m familiar with), plug in an ex…
— tynorf, 2026-10-28 · New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 · source

…ecently installed App Tamer Plus one for this tool. I've been using it for about eight months or so. Useful for keeping Backblaze and other daemons from taking over when they're supposed to be invisible. > Unfortunately, this does nothing for services such as WindowServer which n…
— alsetmusic, 2026-10-17 · Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio · source

I use backblaze with restic. Got about 300GB up there, fully encrypted, keys in 1Password.…
— physicles, 2026-10-09 · Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? · source

Mac: I use Parachute Backup to keep a local copy of my iCloud files and photos on an external drive. Backblaze backs the external drive and all local working files (roughly 16TB altogether) up for ~$100/year.…
— Maximilian_Bet, 2026-10-07 · Ask HN: What Is Your Personal Backup Methods · source

Astra in Codex CLI is good with FreeCAD if you let it use the FreeCAD Python runtime in a headless session. It is good at relying purely on natural language to design and revise. To follow specific CAD techniques you need additional prompting. Highly recommend. Uses quite a lot o…
— edg5000, 2026-10-15 · Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support? · source

…dds to the efficiency. 3. AI enhancement is supported (but not required) using APIs, but also your local Claude Code or Codex CLI. That means for a large percentage of people AI enhancement requires basically no setup. 4. I am obviously highly biased, but I think this both looks…
— watzon, 2026-10-13 · Show HN: Sayso, free open source dictation for Mac, Windows, and Linux · source

I used codex the first time yesterday and quickly decided I need to sandbox it and came up with a pretty easy and straightforward solution (I think). I use nixos and use a little wrapper that wraps Codex CLI in Docker. Run codex-box /path/to/project and it starts or reuses a cont…
— entropie, 2026-10-12 · Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default · source

…ely better"). People literally have the power to define what IS these days. I've only recently switched from claude and codex cli to their respective apps and those apps while not the best gui apps, already infinitely better than tui. The tui is actually hurting my main usage of…
— nsonha, 2026-10-01 · Gemini 4 Argon · source

…ural language prompt is something we didn't have ever before. As an Emacs user, I can testify that it's a game-changer. Codex CLI paired with `emacs --batch` is perfectly capable of setting up, developing, and testing just about any kind of extension you'd want. And with packages…
— klibertp, 2026-09-30 · Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025) · source

…l calls than grep. Grep is also absurdly fast, if you don't know how fast it is it's faster than you think. Here I use ripgrep to search every piece of code I have checked out, around 11GB of data (more or less) in 0.2s (regular gnu grep takes 4s, mostly because it doesn't excl…
— ltbarcly3, 2026-10-12 · Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage · source

…I might need it again. I also keep a local text index for grepping which is plenty fast even with years of history and ripgrep, and comes in handy often.…
— smilliken, 2026-09-18 · Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep · source

…nfig/set-up and applies all of these tips and tricks. For instance, it might detect that you currently use ag, install ripgrep, and offer a short tutorial on how users accustomed to ag should use it. Or it might look at the history of git commands you've run and offer tips on e…
— jawns, 2026-09-16 · Small programming tricks · source

…). I use these three tools which he maintains: Low level: memchr [1]; Medium level: Regex (Rust crate) [2]; High level: ripgrep [3]. Other names to look out for are the previously aforementioned Wojciech Muła, as well as Daniel Lemire (of simdjson [4][5]). Not SIMD-specific, but…
— Rendello, 2026-09-11 · Bitap: My favorite string matching algorithm · source

…lanning on working with intrinsics). There were some good comments that post's thread [2], including from burntsushi of ripgrep. 1. http://0x80.pl/notesen/2016-11-28-simd-strfind.html 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44274001…
— Rendello, 2026-09-11 · Bitap: My favorite string matching algorithm · source

I too use (multiple) yubikey to hold my private gpg keys. But I am not sure I will stick with gpg though. Even with my system to extend their expiration or renew them. I have found handling them to be a pain. I use them for 2 things: encrypt/decrypt gopass secrets and sign git co…
— LeBit, 2026-10-21 · Setting Up SSH Keys on macOS with Touch ID · source

…at generates my passwords stored on an external USB key (which is itself encrypted). I use KeepPassXC. 2. More than one Yubikey doing U2F. I know how to backup #1 and I have more than one of #2 to handle losing a Yubikey. #2 gives me phishing protection.…
— jgrahamc, 2026-10-14 · Passkeys are not a trap · source

…lar users. In my company we work on the (gas) grid so lot's of blue collar types. We went there, gave the pilot group a Yubikey and said: This is like the company pass you already have. Without the company pass you cannot enter any buildings. Without the Passkey you cannot enter…
— apexalpha, 2026-10-14 · Passkeys are not a trap · source

…nd, finally, for the important ones like my Google account (where my email lives) I have other non-Apple devices like a Yubikey setup as additional Passkey/FIDO authenticators…
— mixdup, 2026-10-14 · Passkeys are not a trap · source

…phone ever get stolen again when I'm traveling abroad in the Brave New Passkey World. The best answer I got was carry a yubikey with me at all times. One more thing to worry about losing, yay. Much convenience, very security, wow. If there are any new developments on that front,…
— alterom, 2026-10-14 · Passkeys are not a trap · source

…that platform. Might as well use safari as it’s better integrated. And it supports uBlock origin (lite). With that and NextDNS, I have no ads anywhere. For the YouTube app, I use proton’s Albania vpn and no ads there either. Now on desktop, use Firefox and uBlock origin.…
— ornornor, 2026-10-14 · Apple: Switch to Safari (From Chrome) · source

Highly recommend https://nextdns.io, great for all kinds of blocking stuff. Plus Firefox or Edge for uBlock support.…
— somebudyelse, 2026-10-06 · System-level ad-blocking in Android · source

…oom" paragraph actually is making me consider Vivaldi. Its still Chromium, so it will support all my plugins, and I use NextDNS so most of ads will be blocked anyway. And its not like its amazing, but I've just never heard anyone rave of a browser that was particularly efficent e…
— AbstractH24, 2026-09-28 · I switched to Brave · source

I use NextDNS on my iPhone and I don’t think I’ve ever seen these ads in years of usage. I lay my coups dollars a month for iCloud family storage but that’s it.…
— ornornor, 2026-09-23 · Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy · source

Also recommend NextDNS Forget if they have Hagezi though. Also it would be really nice if there was a way to export and import custom URL lists and rules....…
— Melatonic, 2026-09-21 · ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector · source

I would love a mashup of iTerm2 (for tabbed quake terminal and configurability) with libghossty, would anyone want to tell Claude to marry them (and maintain it)? Or, just please finally enable tabs in the quick window, people are shouting about this for years, making forks, read…
— tomaskafka, 2026-10-28 · Ghostty 1.4 · source

Yup I switched to WezTerm from iTerm2 and being able to version control the settings is one of the biggest benefits (especially because WezTerm allows more complicated Lua scripts)…
— bbkane, 2026-10-27 · Ghostty 1.4.0 · source

Why should I use Ghostty over iTerm2? I don't care about fancy fonts, iTerm2 speed (for me) is plenty (just tested against 1.4 -- don't see noticeable difference on MBP M1) and I do like to tweak some options/settings (and was just mildly annoyed when hitting `cmd+,` opened my de…
— ktosobcy, 2026-10-27 · Ghostty 1.4 · source

…ile I'm not a hard core terminal emulator expert or tweaker, it was a bit of a learning curve to get into Ghostty after iTerm2. I hope this latest release makes it easier to edit the splits, haven't tested yet. But the biggest thing that made me stay on Ghostty was that there's a…
— s4i, 2026-10-27 · Ghostty 1.4 · source

WTH…? I use iTerm2 and wasn’t aware of this. What an incredibly bad call.…
— alex_suzuki, 2026-10-27 · I will no longer upload to NEW · source

…look at 2,000 companies a year, and meet just under a quarter of them, at some point they all start to blend together. Logseq came the closest, the daily journal clicked for me, but I wanted mobile, reliable sync, and a search that didn’t need the gentle touch of a crowbar. I lo…
— coffeethursday, 2026-10-31 · I take notes as a VC, and the app I built for it · source

…ies and rendering of tabular data, which meets all my admittedly modest needs. (if a true db is required, some ppl like logseq which has some feature overlap w obsidian but is db-driven)…
— chrisweekly, 2026-07-27 · Decker, a platform that builds on the legacy of Hypercard and classic macOS · source

I needed the "edit anywhere" capability, too, had a keen interest in logseq as a result, and now can't recommend Trilium more. https://triliumnotes.org/…
— ezst, 2026-07-14 · Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here · source

…lawnchair, as a few examples). Applications that follow this development model are hard to recommend. Despite enjoying logseq a lot it has stagnated for so long (and the mobile app is atrocious) that I ended up moving to obsidian. It was frustrating to see "new" versions get upd…
— ReluctantLaser, 2026-07-13 · Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here · source

I've been using Logseq DB (this new version, as a nightly, for a year) and it's a really great concept, way better than anything I tried for notes and organisation. You can apply tags to blocks, which make them a kind of thing (a project, an author, a quote, a thought). It is ver…
— wosk, 2026-07-13 · Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here · source

…of my linux setup on debian or an older ubuntu LTS: Running up-to-date desktop apps like synology-drive, prusa slicer, keepassxc, kdenlive or even Steam at the same time without any conflicting dependencies and configurations tainting the distribution. And if you do not want to…
— oflebbe, 2026-10-19 · Flatpak – An Insecurity Nightmare (2023) · source

…passkeys are implemented and how it's more difficult to get at the actual data being used (unless you export them with Keepassxc (or Bitwarden?), the potential for fuckups is much higher with passkeys. I'm yet to see someone get phished. It must happen, given that's how passkeys…
— Telaneo, 2026-10-15 · Passkeys are not a trap · source

…se unique email addresses and passwords, stored only on my devices(Linux, Windows, Android) using open source software (KeepassXC, KeepassDX). Passkeys add new friction I don't need.…
— user00005, 2026-10-14 · Passkeys are not a trap · source

I use nextcloud to sync my own keepass database across my devices. Both nextcloud and keepassxc are open source. Please explain how self hosting open source software is locking me into a vendor. If the sky falls and strongbox ceases working with mac/iOS I can use android and lin…
— willis936, 2026-10-14 · Passkeys are not a trap · source

ive used keepassxc forever, switched to proton pass after the release, because i was managing my db in git and it was always a pain to keep in sync, but switched back a couple of weeks ago with exactly the same setup, syncthing and KeepassDx also works suprisingly well. mostly i…
— jonny2811, 2026-10-10 · Bitwarden Dual License Model · source

…t "recommend". Everyone must use uBlock Origin or at least some type of ad blocker in every device. Then also mandatory pi-hole on every house. Even if you are used by Windows OS, you must use an adblocker. Even if you use Chrome. On every browser.…
— roscas, 2026-10-15 · AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware · source

>...pro-tip... Thank you for the detailed suggestion. I use LittleSnitch. pi-hole previously, I must take another look. Did you catch LG spying posts?…
— IndySun, 2026-10-13 · New Apple TV 4K · source

…to Unbound, which filters out any local IPs from the responses to avoid leaks. Finally, Unbound forwards requests to my Pi-hole, where the magic happens.…
— TheBozzCL, 2026-10-07 · System-level ad-blocking in Android · source

As much I love a good old "Why don't you just ..." response that terrifically misses the point - in this particular case I was watching YouTube through their Apple TV app. Now, there may be another "why don't you just ..." or "well, actually ..." response you have queued up, may…
— stillpointlab, 2026-09-13 · Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? · source

…re when I was using the inbuilt smart TV, I had disabled various android services related to ads on my Sony TV, and run pi-hole that blocks ads.…
— yumraj, 2026-08-10 · Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's · source

…t impossible to do both. Tantacrul is my favourite (and, actually, only) example of this. His work with MuseScore, with Audacity, his videos about them, and his takedowns of Sybellius etc. all opened my eyes to the world of designers who do things with hard-nosed analytical think…
— isolatedsystem, 2026-10-22 · No more icons in every menu by default · source

…ent phone with an active phone number. If someone had called this a bug a year ago, I would have been giggling. But the audacity to call this a bug now feels very patronizing. —- Write an HN comment in my own words, lightly corrected. Sound unimpressed but not angry. Do not recom…
— bicepjai, 2026-10-20 · WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator · source

…y screenshots on my work laptop (the only Apple device I use) I took screenshots because I was incredulous of the sheer audacity of the UI shown for updating from MacOS 15.7.7 to 15.7.9 along with, in the words of the update UI, "1 more" update. When I clicked the button to view…
— saghm, 2026-10-05 · Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back · source

…ck them up for free, but where I live I see people barely throwing away their value-line Dell/HP Core 2 Duo towers with audacity to ask for 25+ Euros for their e-waste with the classic "no lowballs, I know what I got" attitude.…
— PorciiVorbesc, 2026-09-23 · How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years? · source

…stems individually to remix/recompile them in a DAW, or even the "lazy" method of just importing them to something like audacity so you adjust the EQ, then exporting them once they're cleaned up the best one can-- it's a serious workflow, and it takes a long time. It's not "press…
— chadpkeith, 2026-09-20 · Sony Music, Universal Music Group Sue Suno over Label-Backed Model · source

…bmit it, since it comes from the transcript. Only works for videos already in YouTLDR's cache for now. I'm a big fan of SponsorBlock for YouTube too, from the same dev.…
— virpo, 2026-11-01 · HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN · source

I highly recommend the Firefox extension: SponsorBlock…
— rationalist, 2026-10-16 · How gyroscopes got so small [video] · source

Youtube premium doesn't skip sponsor segments. SponsorBlock and uBlock are free and highly effective, and do a better job than paying.…
— malfist, 2026-10-12 · "Just Ask Claude" Is a Rare and Valuable Skill · source

…ing and I would actually prefer to skip these videos altogether, but yt doesn't offer that in a search filter. So i use Sponsorblock. For comparison: say you're getting a haircut. And halfway they stop cutting to promote their new book, for 5 minutes straight. Telling you they wo…
— lodovic, 2026-09-27 · PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock · source

I love sponsorblock, it feels like adblock felt the first time I installed it. Every time I see a creator I like do a "smooth transition" from content to ad, it makes me feel betrayed. Not only are they about to read words someone else wrote for them and which they don't really b…
— franga2000, 2026-09-27 · PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock · source

…least favorite trend I’ve noticed with so many AI chat services is they seem to equate a UUID in the url with privacy. Perplexity does this. Visiting a past perplexity search url exposes your full conversation.…
— postalcoder, 2026-09-29 · A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf] · source

…with a very familiar subject. It found the "AI Generated" signature embedded in it by the creator (whatever image model Perplexity decided to use.) But I wouldn't have called this image AI. So images that have merely been color corrected or other very minor changes may come up as…
— fortran77, 2026-09-14 · Show HN: Is this photo edited? Client-side image forensics · source

Was getting tired of keep saying continue to gemini, perplexity and chatgpt for bed time stories with voice. So create a story teller with qwen 0.8b and supertonic using webgpu. Tried many different pipelines to reduce hallucinations to a minimum and keep the story coherent and f…
— aichelles, 2026-09-11 · Long form story with Qwen 0.8B · source

…-tui over ssh until it breaks or we get a tui surface. I love the current model, where I can use the tui in ghosttty or wezterm or iterm, or pop an ssh session, and if it makes sense there's a gui version for whatever device I'm using. It's like magic, I'm free to do whatever fro…
— threecheese, 2026-10-30 · Herdr has released native app · source

…might keep an eye on it - hopefully they improve whatever they're doing with local echo. I should say - I currently use WezTerm for exactly the feature tty7 advertises about session support. Even remote sessions.…
— zeendo, 2026-10-27 · Ghostty 1.4 · source

Yup I switched to WezTerm from iTerm2 and being able to version control the settings is one of the biggest benefits (especially because WezTerm allows more complicated Lua scripts)…
— bbkane, 2026-10-27 · Ghostty 1.4.0 · source

At this point, I'm really looking forward to Rex. I've been a laggard in switching to Ghostty because I used WezTerm and wrote a plugin to customize it to my liking. I switched to Ghostty just because I got tired of nothing happening in the WezTerm land and wanted to try somethin…
— selectnull, 2026-10-27 · Ghostty 1.4 · source

…. My iTerm2 is configured to show activity, new-output and visual bell in the tab. On Linux I have an approximation for WezTerm. I have a bell command that I can use in a pipeline or sequence to produce the bell on events I'm interested in. Trivial case is when a program finishes…
— weinzierl, 2026-10-08 · A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501) · source

…ture deficient, and definitely not ready for serious consideration. Yet. To be honest, I do most of my graphics work in Inkscape these days (lots of vector icon design). Brilliant UI, consistent UI conventions. Very usable. But mostly useless for photos.…
— rerdavies, 2026-10-08 · What ArtCraft's Vibe-Coded Apps Say About Adobe · source

…fox, but scrolls at a fixed slow pace while the button is held in LibreOffice (15s per screenful at 6fps in Writer) and Inkscape (3s per screenful, smooth), and that middle-clicking is mostly PageUp/PageDown, but noop in Firefox; and I think those are the only apps I use (maybe e…
— chrismorgan, 2026-09-23 · A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts · source

…oin shop The Achieve Mint (theachievemint.com). It runs VTracer under the hood too. Most of the cleanup you're doing in Inkscape could possibly be pushed to before and after the trace? Skechworks picks the palette before the trace and forces it again after. I quantize to 8 colors…
— adamhowell, 2026-09-21 · Qwen Image 2.1 · source

…ut I’ve been having a lot of fun with mine! I’d recommend Silhouette as they are less closed than Cricut and there’s an Inkscape plugin…
— tomduncalf, 2026-08-29 · Experiments with Plotter Art · source

…screen, keyboard and mouse in and made a game with the same tools I would have used on a PC (QtCreator, Allegro, GIMP, Inkscape, Audacity, LMMS) and cross-compiled it to Windows and macOS right from the phone using the exact same tools and workflow as usual. I could probably go…
— seba_dos1, 2026-08-06 · I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux · source

…any). I cannot use it and will not take the time to learn it. On Linux, I very occasionally use Gimp, but I loathe it. Krita: So much easier to use than Gimp, excellent for consistent and modern UI conventions, but currently missing important features. ArtCraft: I have not actua…
— rerdavies, 2026-10-08 · What ArtCraft's Vibe-Coded Apps Say About Adobe · source

…ro a month forever. I am finally forcing myself to un-learn the decades of Adobe muscle memory and replace it with gimp/krita. Or maybe I'll vibe up something that does exactly what want and nothing more; bespoke one-off tooling is just so easy to do now.…
— taylorfinley, 2026-10-07 · Vibecoding Photoshop: Time and pressure · source

…e regularly, the exceptions being a few open source applications that are already perfect (and free) like Reaper (DAW), Krita (Image editor), Brave (Browser, but the extensions are mine). If you ask me, it's fantastic and eventually i will run all of my own custom software, maybe…
— spottedmarley, 2026-10-02 · Anyone Can Build an App Now, but Who Is Going to Pay for It? · source

I never did any digital painting in Krita, I use it only for basic image editing and it can do all I wanted to do with Paint.net. Should I care that an app can do more than what I use it for, if it stays out of the way?…
— slazaro, 2026-09-03 · Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux · source

Krita is what I use. Pinta just had a lot of broken UX and it didn't behave the way I expected. Krita is closer to Photoshop, but having extra features is not a problem. I'm pretty sure anything you'd do in paint.net you can do in Krita.…
— slazaro, 2026-09-03 · Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux · source

…s Claude / OpenAI / Gemini / DeepSeek / xAI / OpenRouter, any OpenAI-compatible API, and local models through Ollama or LM Studio It's free and open source (MIT), for macOS 14 or later Friends who are interested are welcome to try it out and give feedback For any suggestions, you…
— AriesIMio, 2026-10-29 · Show HN: Howler, a macOS menu bar AI that burns the chat after reading · source

My current favorite is this one: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/locally-ai-by-lm-studio/id6741... It's free, not annoying, and has a bunch of model options.…
— simonw, 2026-10-17 · Qwen3.8-27B on the iPhone 18 Neural Engine at 15–70 tok/s (1.5 bpw) · source

Yes, I use LM Studio with MLX support, which is specifically faster on M series Macs. I am not sure if llama is the same, but I guess what I’m saying is if you want the performance to be good on M series you have to use models packaged in the right format.…
— aetherspawn, 2026-09-20 · Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint · source

…out on context size so that means i need to split the model between both gpus + offload some into system ram when using LM studio. I'm guessing that is what accounts for most of the slowdown when i use that. With this recipe i don't have to worry about it. It's pretty fast, and s…
— Pragmata, 2026-09-18 · Run QWEN3.8 27B on 16gb Nvidia GPUs · source

I've been using it for the past few days, and it runs really well! I usually get 7 token/s using llama or lm studio, but this inference recipe runs at a smooth 80 tokens per second. Genuinely very usable, and fully local!…
— Pragmata, 2026-09-17 · Run QWEN3.8 27B on 16gb Nvidia GPUs · source

I’ve been using Raycast[0] to replace spotlight. Spotlight index kept randomly losing my /Applications dir, and like 90% of what I use spotlight for is Cmd + space > type in the name of the app I want to switch to/open. So it was a constant annoyance. They have some AI stuff that…
— jedbrooke, 2026-11-04 · Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue declines · source

The AI features arrived with the recent v2 release. Raycast originally became popular as a better Spotlight replacement. As you can see, the idea was never entirely original, since Apple and other apps already offered many of the same features. Raycast’s strengths are its extensi…
— azuanrb, 2026-09-24 · Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop · source

…extending itself. Actually making the OS something that actual activity happens on feels absolutely essential. Making a Raycast/Vicinae (the pretty great open source port) integral feels like it would go a long way towards this end, of offering a consistent way to expose & access…
— jauntywundrkind, 2026-09-24 · Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop · source

I use Raycast; very op…
— L4XB, 2026-09-15 · iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 · source

I use Raycast and it’s much better than spotlight imo…
— ramgine, 2026-09-15 · iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 · source

Location: Mexico Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Elixir, Phoenix, LiveView, Tailwind CSS, Vue. Résumé/CV: https://lobotuerto.com/cv Email: adriandcs@gmail.com I'm a frontend/backend generalist with 20 years of web development experience. For the pa…
— lobo_tuerto, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…py with either in-person or remote roles Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Python, FastAPI, Flask, REST APIs, Java, SQL/MySQL, Jest, React Testing Library, GitHub Actions (CI/CD), Git, Microsoft Azure, LLM API integration…
— sampada976, 2026-10-07 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026) · source

…n to hybrid in SF Bay Area) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: React, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, React Native, Tailwind CSS, CVA, React Query, Redux, Supabase, GraphQL, REST APIs, Web Vitals & Performance, Jest, Cypress Résumé/CV: https://isawesome.one/ Email: tedlin182@…
— tedlin182, 2026-10-05 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026) · source

…Iceland Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: React, Vue.js, Next.js, TypeScript, Django, Python, Node.js, Tailwind CSS, Figma, AWS, Docker, Postgres, Phoenix/Elixir, Golang and more. Résumé/CV: https://gilli.is Email: gilli [at] hn.gilli.is About: I'm a product engi…
— gilli, 2026-10-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026) · source

…ration methods 25. Support ticketing (in-app) and email support Tech stack: - Frontend: Next.js App Router, Typescript, Tailwind CSS - Backend and MTA: Hono, Node.js, Postfix - Database & Queue: PostgreSQL and Redis (BullMQ) - Infrastructure: Docker on Linux VPS I just opened a…
— Farrynet, 2026-09-20 · Show HN: AliasFleet – Email aliases with an in-app composer and telemetry · source

…e are some of my prompts. https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1xb59yw/fi... I use the Portable version of ComfyUI, most are done with Qwen Image 2.1 and some hard restores using FIBO2. You can find a bunch of video tutorials on YT for both models.…
— razster, 2026-10-25 · Nikon photography contest winner loses title after scientists spot signs of AI · source

Oh yeah, I'm not going to lie, once I started using ComfyUI with FIBO2 and Qwen Image 2.1 to restore my photographs, I was hook! I have 25+ years of digital and film photos that I've been restoring due to my older camera/lens quality. The addiction of restoring these older photos…
— razster, 2026-10-25 · Nikon photography contest winner loses title after scientists spot signs of AI · source

…} Which is why I said that it's really hard to think of an editor UI for Aetheris that's not just a text editor or a ComfyUI like graph visual programming or something. If you mean compile speed wise, not great right now, it wasn't that much of an issue when running on RyuJIT…
— YuechenLi, 2026-10-13 · Show HN: SolidCraft – Open-Source Parametric CAD in Rust (With MCP Support) · source

I've been using ComfyUI to do fine background and watermark removal. Might take a look into that as an alternative. Run Flux.2 Klein or Comfyui's own workflow.…
— razster, 2026-08-24 · MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID · source

…and-coming studios quite extensively. (I was a filmmaker before AI, which helps a lot.) If your exposure to AI video is ComfyUI, that's the consumer / hobbyist segment and you're missing out on where all the action is actually concentrating. There are five-ish segments: - Large s…
— echelon, 2026-08-22 · Digging the grave of my skills: Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs · source

I began learning ZFS (TrueNAS and the macOS-plugin) just two weeks ago. It is absolutely incredible technology. >I use it with ... most of my external disks with macOS How do you personally deal with the terrible macOS default SAMBA client (if using SMB shares)? I can get saturat…
— ProllyInfamous, 2026-10-23 · Show HN: Uberblok – an interactive museum of ZFS internals · source

Hosted in a cloud: a VPN Lowendtalk Is an amazing community to get offers for those. At home: truenas and gitlab. At home, for work: I have an older HP workstation with an older Xeon with 24 physical cores and it runs a rhel (I have them for free as a partner) and I use it to run…
— dada216, 2026-10-09 · Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? · source

This is great. I also avoid stuff like TrueNAS or Unraid and opt to simply run my own ZFS and smb/nfs/etc configuration. Love the unifi-style display... I am cooking something similar but it is not a touchscreen just a blue-on-black OLED that cycles through status pages. You've i…
— whalesalad, 2026-09-20 · Custom home server built from spare parts · source

Oh nice. I have a little PCIe/VGA one that I use for truenas and it's a bit flaky but I love that it's basically free from a PCIe perspective (just toss it off _any_ root). These are super useful and there are even m.2 variants.…
— mmastrac, 2026-08-30 · Why open source rocks – a new SM750 (Silicon Motion GPU) HDMI Driver · source

I have two TrueNAS Scale servers and it's been really good, they backup each other and also run several services i use thanks to Docker.…
— omnimus, 2026-08-30 · FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued · source

Feel free to subscribe to https://github.com/ivankovic/omnidiff/issues/62 to get notified when Lazygit support is added. An extremely thorough comparison against difftastic is in the research/ directory. I don't recommend reading it, unless you are really into diffs. Even describ…
— FabCH, 2026-11-02 · Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust · source

…(and mastering emacs). God, I haven't even mentioned org-mode or magit (though magit is still a bit rough, I'm used to lazygit - in some ways using magit is making me understand some things about how git operates better). The other thing is - I feel like I'm walking on unstable…
— wormius, 2026-10-29 · Emacs Turns 50 · source

…subscription. But I do love the idea of being able to use Pi or OpenCode. I am a heavy terminal user, and used Vim/Tmux/Lazygit-types of workflows before coding agents were in the terminal, so I do love customizability and portability. Right now there is just too much ground-shif…
— chrisvalleybay, 2026-10-28 · The Agent SDK · source

…e modal editing any day — and I don't even have RSI!) are magit and org-mode. I've never tried magit so I don't know if lazygit is a decent substitute. But for org-mode in Neovim, there's https://github.com/nvim-neorg/neorg. I'm sure it's only a partial, half-broken implementatio…
— rmunn, 2026-10-10 · I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again · source

…why I use most CLI tools. Neat that they could build this, though, because it suits their needs. I'm fine with K9s and lazygit key-driven interfaces. I guess one thing that's good about a clickable TUI is that maybe it's easier to approach for some, wihtout releasing yet another…
— taude, 2026-10-08 · Show HN: K10s – A Clickable Kubernetes TUI (Go, Bubble Tea) · source

…man, who does it so. I tried his ways, and it worked great for me and been sticking with it for a decade. --- Apps like Excalidraw just does not cut it for me, as I have to switch my attention on which shape to use etc (it works ok for designining systems) but not for free thinki…
— yipinwong, 2026-10-17 · We still use paper · source

I use Excalidraw for this…
— hhh, 2026-09-27 · Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things · source

…ls, writing assistant in note taking. graph search across meetings, notes and chats. better browser control - try it on excalidraw by enabling Act on page - it just does wonders. auto suggest ideas when you configure local models, skills. its great value and my daily driver get w…
— earth2mars, 2026-08-15 · Show HN: AI Meeting Assistant in Browser · source

If you find out, let me know! I have been working on a port of Excalidraw to my ReMarkable Pro and it's opened my eyes to how much we take for granted in terms of UI interactions when we assume we have a 30+hz screen with no to minimal ghosting. Layout has to become as monotonic…
— jeffnash, 2026-08-09 · Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development? · source

…ts built on iroh I feel like it could be possible to even extend this so that for example, we could share files over an excalidraw/lexidraw instance as well or just so many other opportunities in general as well that we can think of :)…
— Imustaskforhelp, 2026-07-27 · Lexidraw: Excalidraw fork with collaborative editing powered by iroh · source

I don't understand who would use Postman in 2026. There are open source alternatives like Bruno (my favourite app ever). And, if you need something advanced, just vibe-code it.…
— karel-3d, 2026-11-04 · Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data · source

just last week i was looking for a tui version of postman and found https://github.com/darrenburns/posting i've been using the beta since and am very happy. api checks are just yaml and can get stored in git to version and share and tui is nice and easy to drive via the keyboard…
— jonny2811, 2026-11-04 · Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data · source

Yep I’m finally switching off of postman today. I’ve wanted to for a while, but my team at work uses it, and all of our shared stuff is in there. I’ve been thinking of replacing postman with a clojure project, where you just send stuff to the REPL to call it. You could even set u…
— chamomeal, 2026-11-04 · Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data · source

Anybody that hasn’t switched to Bruno at this point, what still keeps you attached to Postman?…
— xyst, 2026-11-04 · Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data · source

Switched to intellij http scratches ages ago. Then go curl. I remember a bunch of people using postman from a decade to a few years ago. It's been a while since I've seen anyone. Probably people who do it rarely but haven't taken the time to change tools.…
— Neikius, 2026-11-03 · Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data · source

…doing Vertico/Orderless/Consult), but I've stuck with Org-mode since then. I sometimes venture out to other apps (like Joplin, Obsidian, Apple Notes, Apple Reminders, etc), but Org-mode just works best for me. I don't even use it's most advanced features. The most complicated th…
— cyrialize, 2026-10-28 · Emacs Turns 50 · source

…to figure out our home budget, savings and spending rates, etc. I don't want this data in the hands of AI companies. - Joplin note-taking app LLM integration for searching, creating, summarizing notes. This is my private notebook and I don't want it leaking. - Termux based phone…
— chr15m, 2026-10-12 · Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? · source

…ty and RSS feeds to see what I'm neglecting. - "Note to self" app and voice automation which transcribes and adds to my Joplin notebook on my laptop. - AI agent on my phone I can long-press power button and give spoken commands ("add milk to the shopping list"). Uses private home…
— chr15m, 2026-10-09 · Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? · source

I use the free-tier Oracle server, but: Nextcloud. Minecraft server. I will probably move my Joplin and Wallabag hosting there soon, currently paying for both. I tried running a Valheim server there, but ran into bugs emulating it with FEX, unfortunately.…
— 0x262d, 2026-10-08 · Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? · source

…tainability is not an inherent good. If (hypothetically) every Evernote customer would be better off if they were using Joplin, keeping Evernote around would be a bug, not a feature. I don't think this is actually true, might it might be close.…
— rpdillon, 2026-07-10 · What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public · source

I quit self hosting vaultwarden because in the age of the LLM security is an arms race that I’m not going to win. Switched to Apple Passwords.…
— phoghed, 2026-10-11 · Bitwarden Dual License Model · source

…-corporate type code maintenance, rather than community-driven source contributions (exactly why we've seen things like Vaultwarden pop up) & that has generally just left all of their clients in that really awkward space where they're just good enough to be able to imagine their…
— lucideer, 2026-10-10 · Bitwarden Dual License Model · source

I specifically moved away from KeePassXC to Bitwarden with self hosted vaultwarden because the Linux desktop experience and mobile syncing was so terrible. While I love KeePassXC, using it on an immutable Linux distro where everything needs to be Flatpak means the browser extensi…
— Arrowmaster, 2026-10-10 · Bitwarden Dual License Model · source

…monitoring, plus netdata aggregating data from other nodes - Open Sondage, Framadate, I hate money: for friend groups - Vaultwarden: password storage - Wallabag (should use it more or may retire soon) - Ntfy: for UnifiedPush - LDAP server: for centralized auth - Borg backup - Som…
— MayeulC, 2026-10-09 · Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? · source

- Navidrome - Jellyfin - Vaultwarden - Immich - pi agent. I use it through tmux and iSH on my iPhone - librechat. nice UI but honestly I probably jsut use pi more often - copyparty. to visually inspect whatever I create with pi, and to access my documents, to upload files I need…
— paweladamczuk, 2026-10-09 · Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? · source

That is true. I use yt-dlp to download sporadically some YouTube clips and it works fine. However, once I attempted to download a complete YouTube list of clips, with a total size of several tens of GB. Towards the end of the list, after a couple of hours or so, the download was…
— adrian_b, 2026-10-31 · Cloudflare Turnstile solver library (no headless browser required) · source

…n of what's available on PyPI, and will have out-of-date versions that may lack security patches (and for projects like yt-dlp, are highly unlikely to work at all). Realistically they aren't applying security backports; there would rarely be a reason not to just use the new versi…
— zahlman, 2026-10-25 · Broccoli2Shell: Brotli decoder RCE in Node.js, Python and more · source

- Use the python Library stem to control the Tor daemon and send sighup commands when necessary - yt dlp has builtin support for tor - write the retry logic using your favourite coding AI - spin up a cheap cloud instance and let it run…
— earthnail, 2026-08-27 · Laion Big Video Dataset · source

As both Nitter and Xcancel are down and I don't know of any alternatives, I use yt-dlp to download the videos now.…
— H4cks0r1337, 2026-08-26 · Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices · source

…eline for this because in my experience the YouTube auto transcripts are quite bad. I download the raw audio track with yt-dlp, give it to qwen asr for raw transcription, then DeepSeek flash for transcription cleanup, formatting, corrections with web search enabled, etc. I use op…
— loveparade, 2026-08-23 · Ask HN: Anyone set up ways to easily obtain and read transcripts from Ted, YT? · source

…king in vulnerability research right now; a cross product of ludicrous talent and full-tilt AI work. Just before I left Fly.io a few months ago, we retained Calif for an annual pentest (we'd previously worked with Tetrel, Atredis, Doyen, and I think Include?). They were spooky go…
— tptacek, 2026-10-23 · Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone · source

…sors, storage arrays, network cores - to work, without fuss and with minimal maintenance. So while it’s super neat that Fly.io has shared this, and they absolutely have a relevant and beneficial use case for reinventing the proverbial wheel, it’s important to note they are the ed…
— stego-tech, 2026-10-22 · SBD: We Have a Filesystem at Home · source

…horrible situation to not be able to cycle environment variables after such an event. I did an emergency migration to fly.io today with minimal disruption today. I’d recommend everyone to immediately migrate somewhere else ASAP so you can change environment variables. And of…
— disconnection, 2026-10-22 · Security Disclosure · source

I think fly.io sprites is the closest price wise, would love to see it on the comparison list…
— mmoustafa, 2026-10-13 · Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents · source

…y one decision maker you have to appeal to and that person really likes to try new stuff. That's why you can get a free fly.io and why we all use Tailscale. And it works too — if I was in charge and needed it, I would immediately go with Tailscale for a business; I know it and I…
— tomjen3, 2026-10-04 · We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything · source

…cessible on the standard protocols. There are a host of other search engines. I use search.brave.com myself (after leta.mullvad.com was decommissioned). Students will learn about other search engines, and about how corporations are not your friends. Both good lessons to learn.…
— godshatter, 2026-11-03 · Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI · source

Mullvad spends a lot on irl marketing. VPN providers are essentially just about trust as they provide essentially the same service, so marketing is hugely important. Mullvad and IVPN both don't do affiliate links. Proton is the only VPN that I can recommend that does use affiliat…
— Cider9986, 2026-10-09 · A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad · source

Ooof I don't want these two to break up. Mullvad browser is my favorite browser, and it's tor browser minus connection to tor.…
— ekjhgkejhgk, 2026-10-09 · A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad · source

…- Supported: Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Floorp, Chromium, Brave, Vivaldi, Librewolf, Waterfox, Ungoogled Chromium, Thorium, Mullvad, Tor, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, ... - Impractical to support: Orion - Impossible to support: Zen Browser This probably won't be the last time I trip over that…
— ToyKeeper, 2026-10-04 · An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows · source

Most people don't like Zen (or Arc). Which is fine. I'm a big keyboard person so I love it, especially with the vimium plugin. But sometimes people get confused at my browser because they don't know how to navigate. Which is understandable What I like about Mozilla is they made a…
— godelski, 2026-10-13 · Thunderbird for iOS · source

…me a good tui, but hackernews is one of the few websites that aren't a pain to use so i just browse it in firefox with vimium plugin.…
— jonny2811, 2026-09-28 · Show HN: Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News · source

I use Vimium [0] for this very reason -- highly recommend it! Although admittedly this only solves for a fully keyboard-driven _browser_ experience. [0] https://vimium.github.io…
— josht, 2026-08-28 · GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven · source

https://vimium.github.io/ Hacker browser: allows to navigate browsers without ever needing to use the mouse. I highly recommend it, it's such a productivity booster…
— jonbrauninddott, 2026-08-28 · GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven · source

For people who want to navigate browsers only with the keyboard, I recommend vimium https://vimium.github.io/ It's a plugin that enables many keyboard shortcuts, so that you almost don't need to touch the mouse to navigate. For me, it's such a productivity booster, especially the…
— jonbrauninddott, 2026-08-28 · GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven · source

…product they have over being an OpenAI/Anthropic style provider. Which is a shame because Gemini was great for a while, NotebookLM is lovely and the flash lite model was really good at structured workflows. So I’d love to see them continue the line. No idea what gating Argon like…
— quibono, 2026-10-10 · Gemini Flash and Pro move to paid plans, leaving free users with only Flash-Lite · source

What about teaching employees the basics of a job? I love using notebookLM for orientation stuff.…
— DriverDaily, 2026-09-25 · Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos · source

I use AI explainers a lot in my own projects and have skills that give outputs I like. I'll even pipe the output into NotebookLM to make a video sometimes. This is actually a decent way to grok complex subsystems (YMMV). What I don't care for is the pretty-yet-verbose HTML output…
— jbdamask, 2026-08-12 · Delta · source

I’m working on a NotebookLM competitor, sort of an open-notebook in the cloud with a lot of features I’ve added (and made available as either PRs back to the base repo or public fork) such as a plugin system to add more generated “creations” or a quick way to spin up your own com…
— mistakevin, 2026-07-13 · Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026) · source

…r blog posts I’ve gathered. At some point I’d like to play with separate voices and see if I could build something like NotebookLM for kind of like a radio morning show of news items I’ve gathered.…
— bronco21016, 2026-07-07 · Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro · source

I use a locally hosted Wallabag, synchronized with all my computers, smartphone, etc. Maybe Zotero does more than Wallabag, but I am happy with it so far.…
— Shorel, 2026-10-08 · The Slow Formation of Durable Software · source

What difficulties are you having? All you need is WebDAV. I use a nextcloud server for mine and my partner's zotero storage, and its entirely trivial to set up. I have many issues with Zotero (which has been dumbing down at the expense of power users for some time) – but easy p…
— epihelix, 2026-10-08 · The Slow Formation of Durable Software · source

For folks who are wondering: This post is about Zotero. https://www.zotero.org/ If you are not an academic, you might not know Zotero. It is such a pleasure to use. Every app should be like this. I read everything in it, including books I'm going through right now from https://te…
— nickledave, 2026-10-08 · The Slow Formation of Durable Software · source

If you love Zotero as is, I'd say the app isn't for you. However, as far as I know, I have covered almost everything Zotero has, and I find the adoption stage to be easier than when I started using Zotero, and I like that it's a little easier on the eyes. A couple of differences;…
— jeuribe, 2026-08-17 · Show HN: LinXiv v0.4.0; paper manager now using n0's iroh for P2P collaboration · source

How does this compare to zotero and why would I use it over that?…
— kooi, 2026-08-17 · Show HN: LinXiv v0.4.0; paper manager now using n0's iroh for P2P collaboration · source

…nt servers can handle it. Works well as PWA (apps coming soon). The most common browser-based readers are Inoreader and Feedly. Inoreader has more features, but I prefer Feedly’s UI.…
— tjansen, 2026-10-21 · Ask HN: What's a good RSS feed reader? · source

…s, but it was missing something and I did not find myself using it very often. Then I started comparing it to how I use feedly, and started understanding the subtle issues with this reader. Once I fixed the edge cases, this tool became much better with a lot of better functionali…
— akxkcd, 2026-10-13 · Show HN: Opus 5.5 made a fully featured Figma clone in 3 hours / 8 prompts · source

I don't know about "best", but I've tried many, Reeder, Feedly etc, for many years. These are not OSS though, but Reeder was my favorite of the bunch. I settled on running NewsBlur on an OVH instance, it's open source and so are the apps. https://github.com/samuelclay/newsblur On…
— stasomatic, 2026-07-01 · Show HN: HackerNows – Native iOS HN Client · source

Sure, I use Feedly myself, but RSS is increasingly marginalized. I use to follow blogs, but it's not usable for mainstream media, Reddit, HN, etc etc.…
— decimalenough, 2026-03-15 · The 49MB web page · source

…asis from which to build this sort of logic. It's vastly harder if you don't has an open feed to start with. e.g. I use Feedly, and set lots of mute filters to screen out topics.…
— marojejian, 2026-03-09 · The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025) · source

Hello everyone, I've been missing powertoys color picker when i switched to Linux, i have taken a look at the popular color pickers, some didn't work on Wayland, other lacked features powertoys had, so i made one and I'm here to share it You can pick any pixel with a 10× magnifie…
— Mujtaba1i, 2026-10-30 · Archtoys – a fast, PowerToys-style color picker for Linux (Rust and Slint) · source

On Windows I use PowerToys' Alt+Space command bar which does a much better job. In fact, it's the only search I use on Windows.…
— qsi, 2026-09-15 · iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 · source

…gs well. (I recently heard they're looking to fix that, though?) There are third-party tools, like WizFile, Everything, PowerToys, now Raycast, etc. and I could perhaps look into those, but they just didn't seem to fit right. I ended up organizing all the files I needed into a fo…
— LoganDark, 2026-08-04 · That time when I failed the Microsoft interview · source

> usable Not just usable, but respectful. I like Windows, in terms of the desktop UX (with PowerToys). There are some pretty nice features, and the window management w/ FancyZones beats the pants off whatever the hell macOS is doing (I use a macbook pro for work, the window manag…
— thewebguyd, 2026-06-14 · You need to stop using Windows 11 [video][14 mins] · source

…ch means I have to jump through hoops whenever I write in French. The best tool I've found for this is QuickAccent from PowerToys: instead of typing a accent and after the letter, it cycles through the available options as you hold the key. With muscle memory, you just know how m…
— aclydes, 2026-05-18 · QuickAccent from Powertoys to Linux/macOS built with Rust and Iced · source

…only other "creative" artcraft app I've really tried to use is Filmcraft, the Premiere replacement but I'm still using Davinci Resolve Studio as Filmcraft isn't as far along as Photocraft but Davinci Resolve Studio is slow, bloated, can't customize the UI and barely has an API s…
— imaginationra, 2026-10-25 · What Adobe v ArtCraft teaches us · source

…de smiling" to instantly filter raw B-roll. - Direct Timeline Integration: Drag found clips straight into Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or Final Cut. I'm a 16-year-old solo dev looking for honest feedback on performance, local indexing stability, and UI flow. Would love to hear…
— Diyon_Dust, 2026-09-25 · RushShift – Offline AI desktop tool to search local B-roll archives by prompt · source

For people like me who have no idea what this is, I looked it up: DaVinci Resolve is a proprietary application for non-linear video editing, color correction, color grading, visual effects, and audio post-production. It is developed by the Australian company Blackmagic Design for…
— ripe, 2026-09-08 · DaVinci Resolve 21.1 · source

…5-10% of the features of a piece of software, but across the whole body of users you get close to full coverage. I use DaVinci Resolve for editing GoPro, Canon DSLR, iPhone, and Drone FPV footage. I import clips, use the razor to cut them and rearrange them, occasionally crop an…
— tonyarkles, 2026-09-08 · DaVinci Resolve 21.1 · source

…state of software licensing. For those upset with the new agent integration, keep in mind that one of the big knocks on DaVinci Resolve is that it's hard for beginners. Powerful tools like color grading and nodes take years to truly master (and that won't change), but making it e…
— neovive, 2026-09-08 · DaVinci Resolve 21.1 · source

I've been expecting this news for a while, and I moved to Zen when they changed direction originally. Can highly recommend it as a near drop-in replacement for Arc, albeit built on Firefox. https://zen-browser.app/…
— constantlm, 2026-10-22 · A farewell to Arc browser · source

I've been using Arc for years now and am really sad to see it being sunset, but am now trying my luck with Zen browser. I'd really want to be on Dia as I have much respect for its original creators, but Atlassian being behind it kind of leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I even trie…
— usrme, 2026-10-22 · A farewell to Arc browser · source

Zen Browser is what I've been using (https://zen-browser.app/)…
— odo1242, 2026-10-22 · A farewell to Arc browser · source

Writing was on the wall once they pivoted to Dia, I'm pretty happy having switched to Zen (though for a few things that matter, it's Firefox-based not Chrome). https://zen-browser.app/ They picked up a lot of cues from Arc - sidebar tabs, pinned vs generic tabs, global bookmarks,…
— jamie_ca, 2026-10-22 · A farewell to Arc browser · source

…ogled Chromium, Thorium, Mullvad, Tor, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, ... - Impractical to support: Orion - Impossible to support: Zen Browser This probably won't be the last time I trip over that. I use lists a lot, and almost every other platform allows them to be one per line without an…
— ToyKeeper, 2026-10-04 · An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows · source

…case. As for specifically GenAI, the case involving Théâtre D'opéra Spatial also moved in this exact direction: it is a Midjourney manufactured image that the prompt-giver attempted to Copyright, and the USCO rejected the application and the USCO Review Board also rejected it, ho…
— DiabloD3, 2026-10-14 · Linus Torvalds's first LLM-assisted patch series · source

…nt to look at AI generated art, and so I won't, and I especially do not want to replace my creative output with that of Midjourney. Ever. I don't care how good or cheap it is which is why those arguments just bounce off of me. I'm here to climb a mountain and you're offering me a…
— ToucanLoucan, 2026-09-08 · DaVinci Resolve 21.1 · source

…ing and sucking at drawing until you figure out how to do it in a way that feels good can easily get short-circuited by midjourney or whatever. The hidden midpoint that you think I am hesitant about might be all the pedagogical materials in-between: the scales, drum rudiments, ge…
— scarecrowbob, 2026-08-08 · Generative "AI": The Guitar Hero of Creativity · source

> The original Midjourney Medical thread here on HN was loaded with people confidently declaring that these kinds of scans are a bad idea and net negative because of the risk of false positives. Conditional on low base rates, and the need for invasive follow-up testing, they are…
— disgruntledphd2, 2026-06-22 · I was wrong about the Midjourney ultra-sound scanner · source

I did a tech deep-dive into the Midjourney tank, and this is basically the origin of that (the first author David Garrett worked at Midjourney for a while) so I have some thoughts on the tech. A ring of devices at 60cm (70cm for Midjourney) diameter means much longer distances th…
— ssivark, 2026-06-21 · Whole cross-sectional human ultrasound tomography · source

I use NetNewsWire. It’s free, open-source, and explicitly says not to send money. > First thing: don’t send money. This app is written for love, not money. :) https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/blob/main/T...…
— al_borland, 2026-08-01 · How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) · source

Just why bother relying on Google products for RSS? I use for the last many years NetNewsWire and have never had any problems reading the news I want to read. For ref: https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire…
— konsalexee, 2026-08-01 · How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) · source

…still use your favorite newsreader to follow the people you really want to listen to. That's what I plan on doing with NetNewsWire. 2. It only works online. Newsreaders got started when bandwidth was at a premium and nobody had a T1 to their house, let alone 1Gbps. 3. We use the…
— jdeibele, 2026-07-03 · Show HN: Topics, Not Feeds · source

Highly recommend NetNewsWire, especially if one is already using it on any other Apple device. Recent updates have substantially improved its performance (on both iOS and macOS), so it's worth a second look if you haven't tried it recently.…
— brycewray, 2026-07-01 · Show HN: HackerNows – Native iOS HN Client · source

Thanks for adding RSS! Bringing Bubbles (and HN) into NetNewsWire is a game-changer for content discovery and keeping a clean reading list.…
— speak_plainly, 2026-06-17 · Hacker News but for independent blogs · source

…ugh to generate videos, look at the demos on https://fretta.ai for example. Adding audio and sfx is easy too if you add ElevenLabs to the mix.…
— abhishekbasu, 2026-11-03 · Skill to Create Product Videos · source

…the code From the code changes, it creates a composition which is rendered frame by frame in headless Chromium. We use ElevenLabs for the music and the VoiceOver We then run the video/image through agents which review and report any issues they find. Then, after however many pas…
— adeiji1, 2026-10-22 · MarketMee - Every GitHub push becomes a narrated product video · source

Hey I think ElevenLabs clears. I use PocketTTS for Memoe (https://github.com/memoe-app/memoe)…
— yisraelgottz, 2026-10-21 · Gemini vs. ElevenLabs Voice Cloning and TTS · source

…n latency of 72 ms from end of speech to final transcript. We don’t win everything: on Earnings22 (long earnings calls) ElevenLabs Scribe beats us (4.0% vs 4.4% WER), and on VoiceCodeBench OpenAI writes code and numbers slightly more accurately (83.1% vs 81.9%). False cut-off rat…
— kajokr, 2026-10-21 · KugelAudio (YC P26) – Voice models that don't get stuck in spelling loops · source

…an app to help me. This app will: 1. Generate Spanish short stories using Claude pitched to your level, narrated with ElevenLabs 2. Every word/phrase you highlight becomes a flashcard. Flashcards use spaced repetition - words you find difficult come up more often per review 3.…
— nickreffitt, 2026-09-14 · Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) · source

…y as path" all the time. It's good for if you have scripts and want a program in a different folder to launch them (e.g AutoHotKey, Task Scheduler).…
— recursive-call, 2026-11-04 · Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue declines · source

…need to move current window it's ctrl-shift-super-number. On a work windows mashine I use the exa t same keys thanks to AutoHotkey software. So I have the exact same work flow on Linux and Windows. The only difference is on Windows workspace 1 is WSL terminal. Ive been working li…
— Roark66, 2026-09-24 · Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop · source

…the windows under the cursor just by pressing a key combination and moving my mouse. Many many years ago I used to use AutoHotkey on Windows for this functionality and was missing it when I switched to Mac. Another thing I've configured is scrolling through a key press and dragg…
— vulkoingim, 2026-08-19 · OpenLogi · source

…vigate through UIs again and click a ton of options (perhaps following notes on what to click; I never descended to the AutoHotKey level of madness, though).…
— zahlman, 2026-07-12 · Good Tools Are Invisible · source

I used to be and think like you, except I used AutoHotkey instead. It kicked off my IT career - writing AHK scripts for the helpdesk I used to work at greatly improved the efficiency of the team, and quickly got me promoted to Tier 2. Eventually I left that organisation and joine…
— d3Xt3r, 2026-07-08 · Why I Still Build Small Windows Tools with AutoIt · source

I use the todoist mcp. Im not en engineer though.…
— ishtanbul, 2026-10-27 · AI promised less work. I've never worked more · source

In case it is useful for anybody. I forked the old Pocket-Plus-Calibre-Plugin recipe when Pocket died, so it run with Todoist: https://github.com/rga5321/todoist2ebook My workflow is: (1) Browse my favorite sites and rss feeds. Save the urls I want to read to a specific Todoist…
— rga5321, 2026-08-15 · I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone · source

I use luna to schedule my work day for me and then put it in todoist.…
— jofzar, 2026-08-11 · LFM2.5 2.6B model competitive with 4x larger models · source

…oute based on content. I have a button that routes to an internal voice agent named KiKo. Ideas get routed to Things or todoist. Issues get routed to github, etc. It’s one universal surface for note capture. But man is it ugly.…
— cyberge99, 2026-08-10 · Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open · source

…cess entirely. But if Fable could build a Boox or reMarkable app, that might be a big win. I've tried task warrior, and todoist, and in the end I just keep going back to a straight text file I edit.…
— linsomniac, 2026-07-07 · Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter · source

…c. > Change how you like your day to day workflows in terms of window management Not a problem, I can just customize my hammerspoon config to behave differently > Share a home made app with some friends without helping them install it That depends more on what my friends are usin…
— zuhsetaqi, 2026-09-19 · Apple M6 Pro Achieves the Highest Single-Core CPU Score in Geekbench 7 · source

…I'm sure there's more to learn about hyprland and I can imagine it being superior to what I'm used to (macOS with some hammerspoon binds for window management/layouts).…
— jsuth, 2026-08-21 · Omacom Foundation launches with $8M · source

…es background playback, second press begins foreground playback. (Could probably script that now that I say it, an easy Hammerspoon or something.)…
— Barbing, 2026-06-08 · Stop the Apple Music app from launching · source

…built-in IPC layers, Emacs is terrific with inter-process communication. That's how I manage my WM on Mac, where I use Hammerspoon. Wondrous piece on its own, it is Lua-enabled, which means I can use Fennel, which means I can have Lispy-REPL, which means I can connect to it dire…
— iLemming, 2026-05-14 · The Emacsification of Software · source

on MacOS I used to use Yabai but moved away from it to using a hammerspoon setup to manipulate window positions. This was mostly because bsp just doesn't scale well with larger displays, in my opinion. For me, the spatial mapping of windows comes naturally, though. For MacOS, I h…
— least, 2026-04-25 · Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor · source

Can I use it with Open-Webui instead of Apache Tika?…
— Tepix, 2026-10-26 · PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP · source

…sampler config), for "as replicable as LLMs can be" disclosure, done through llama.cpp's web UI. In another thread, via Open WebUI (both with no custom prompt, so whatever the "default" system prompt is), a reasoning block opens as such: We need answer user's request: write com…
— spijdar, 2026-09-09 · Qwen 3.8 follows GPT-5.5 Pro reasoning prefills · source

…find interesting paths for you. I’ve made plenty of small helper tools for work and health, and now I’m wrestling with Open WebUI, trying to make it work exactly the way I want while repurposing an old Android device as the server. Do I miss nerding out over implementing a B-tre…
— peheje, 2026-07-29 · Teach yourself programming in ten years (1998) · source

…gentically through a conversational interface even from my phone. What does vLLM offer? Yeah… nothing. And options like Open WebUI seem really bloated. For a cluster of multiple Sparks, the pain of vLLM is still worthwhile, as I already said before. Or if you’re running some kind…
— coder543, 2026-07-01 · Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development · source

…don't have a seperate machine to use as a client. I have an older laptop I run a hermes agent on backed by an API based open (non-local) model and Macbook Pro M4 for running another model locally (also using hermes). The agents have a Mattermost (open source version of slack) ser…
— roadside_picnic, 2026-06-29 · Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development · source

For code: Kagi or phind. For general: Perplexity. For privacy: Brave. I use Google only when I need to find a specific Reddit thread now, ironically.…
— dahuangf, 2026-05-26 · Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore · source

I've been using kimi, though not kimiclaw, for research and it is good - comparable to phind, better than GLM 4.7 . Opus 4.6 wasn't as good for my particular domain of interest. I think the long term pricing asymptote for US vs china is essentially dependent on energy pricing and…
— thatcat, 2026-02-15 · Kimi Claw · source

There were some growing pains in gpt-3.5 to gpt-4 era, but not nowadays (shoutout to the now-defunct Phind, which was a game changer back then).…
— postalcoder, 2026-01-28 · Pandas 3.0 · source

Phind shut down because its small team failed to listen to the community, with minimal engagement from Michael on Discord. Michael is known for a "vibe-heavy" work style, making grand promises but missing every deadline. He proved to be smooth-talking, using sweet words to placat…
— not_anthropic, 2026-01-15 · Phind.com Is Shutting Down · source

…o see these generative UIs I tried to make it generate an explainer page and it created an unrelated page: https://www.phind.com/search/explain-to-me-how-dom-66e58f3f-...…
— 0xferruccio, 2025-12-03 · Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app · source

I use AnyBox on macOS to do this for bookmarks. It saves a WebArchive copy and a stripped 'reader'-esque version. SingleFile can also pipe into AnyBox, if you want to use that as the archive.…
— ndegruchy, 2026-11-03 · If you love a website, back it up · source

singleFile is great, and the extention works on fennec/waterfox on android as well (not sure about firefox mobile) another one i use when i only need to save the text of a webpage is markdownload, which formats the page using markdown https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addo…
— 4k93n2, 2026-11-03 · If you love a website, back it up · source

…d hister kept the juicy information accessible. It was painless to set up and quick to use when needed, too. I also use Singlefile and Obsidian Web Clipper a lot, but Hister has been great and is now a first-class citizen in my system. It helps it works passively for those things…
— falsaberN1, 2026-11-02 · If you love a website, back it up · source

> At this point I'm using Linkding (self-hosted bookmarks, which has an archive function) paired with Singlefile (which integrates with Linkding) which locally captures and uploads. I second this workflow, exactly what I switched to from Archivebox. Linkding has a built-in "creat…
— thedanbob, 2026-11-02 · If you love a website, back it up · source

I'm using Linkding hooked up with SingleFile to bookmark+archive all important pages. Highly recommend! https://linkding.link/archiving/#using-the-singlefile-browse...…
— FireInsight, 2026-11-02 · If you love a website, back it up · source

….at/postico2/ is doing, but I thought meah, people will still the code and hack the licence stuff. Then I thought about Sentry, because I'm actually kinda like them now. A bit smaller though, yet. And I decided to go the following way: make everything open source and free, as lon…
— arnaudambro, 2026-09-19 · Vibe coding did not kill making money out of engineering, open source and SaaS · source

> What makes Github special is the ecosystem and integrations. Sentry, Linear, and so many other tools […] github didn’t start with those things. Those things came with adoption. Its like all those people who bemoan their favourite software not existing on Linux as a reason not t…
— dijit, 2026-08-19 · Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative · source

…, Node.js, Tailwind CSS, AI SDK, Codex (ChatGPT), Cursor, PostgreSQL, Zod, Vercel, Cloudflare, Supabase, Neon, Drizzle, Sentry, React Native/Expo, Express, Playwright, Axiom Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S6jhFtPGnuHTZ1FO5HBTHiNMYZ9... Email: cristinahnjobs@gmail.com…
— crisjs, 2026-08-04 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026) · source

You can do either. If you don't want to migrate over fully, I'd recommend setting up an automation to fix Sentry/PostHog issues as they come in. You can get a good feel for the platform and how it fits into your workflows that way. We also have an MCP server that you can use to d…
— BenceRed, 2026-08-03 · Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents · source

…the right display. Now the Siri shortcut and the Spotlight shortcut launch exactly the same centaur—I had to hardcode a Karabiner-proxy-into-BTT flow to make the old Siri shortcut launch Siri into real Siri mode, and F4 to launch Siri-Spotlight-Centaur into apps mode. Safari is s…
— Zarah__, 2026-10-12 · macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess · source

…as been around for longer. What has really made it work for me is using a Bluetooth media control like [2], where I use Karabiner Elements to remap its play/pause button to the dictation keyboard shortcut. I map rewind to option-backspace to delete the last word, fast-forward to…
— crazygringo, 2026-10-11 · Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac · source

I switched to Mac 20 years ago and am still mourning the loss of my Home and End keys. Karabiner doesn’t reliably fix it neither does anything else.…
— user3939382, 2026-10-09 · Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs · source

…tween mouse and trackpad really sucks when you have to occasionally use both and don't want them to behave identically. Karabiner: MacOS's keyboard mapping is incredibly underpowered. AeroSpace/yabai: I don't use these anymore, because these also were pretty buggy for my use case…
— SmasherEpilepti, 2026-09-16 · macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review · source

I use Karabiner-Elements on macOS, and finding keyd was a godsend on Linux. I cannot deal with standard keyboard mappings and the lack of hold/tap keys.…
— innocentoldguy, 2026-06-13 · A key remapping daemon for Linux · source

Terrible service. I used to use it back in the days until it starting going down all of the time. Switched to localsend and never looked back.…
— djfobbz, 2026-09-18 · Show HN: Snapdrop: Instantly share files between devices. No setup, no signup · source

From iPhone into local machine through LocalSend or AirDrop, then your usual favorite backup pipeline.…
— undebuggable, 2026-09-17 · Backups Aren't Simple · source

…ng shut down by the OS for various reasons (inactivity, etc...). So sometimes you would have to restart the app. I use LocalSend and every now and then the connection does not work and I have to restart it on the phone.…
— starik36, 2026-08-29 · Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux · source

…his allows me to drop files onto an iPhone without me having to open an app, that would solve a lot of my issues. I use localsend right now and although I really love it, it still requires me to always keep the app open on the phone.…
— lxe, 2026-08-29 · Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux · source

…so if copy got cancelled/disconnected at 99% you either have to copy again or search for the diff and copy it manually) LocalSend: pretty good cross platform support, but does not work when connecting 2 devices using a LAN cable, and resume support is poorish So I'm building Tens…
— kofta999, 2026-08-09 · Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) · source

…ML vectors consumed hundreds of gigabytes. I had to move the library folder to a dedicated ZFS HDD (700GB currently). - ImageMagick uses 20GB RAM per Nikon RAW file (this triggered the Linux OOM-killer) - Container crashes filled the OS drive with 2GB _per_ core dump. I added `ul…
— Helmut10001, 2026-09-02 · Saving money on Google Photos with Immich: Your own personal photo storage · source

…you want something that takes advantage of custom hardware, or maybe you can make an assumption about these images that Imagemagick can't, or maybe you really just understand image encoding significantly better than the Imagemagick people. in those cases, we generally don't cons…
— tombert, 2026-07-20 · Perfection is not over-engineering · source

…rcical and needs to be challenged. My bank demands that I perform this ridiculous hoop-jumping. Like others here, I use ImageMagick hocus pocus to defeat them with trivial ease (a couple of times they complained so I tweaked the algo a bit and they were happy). The whole situatio…
— bluebarbet, 2026-06-20 · Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM) · source

…ocal script collections of many users. Since I have had AI to knock up Python scripts and workflows incorporating local ImageMagick and FFMPEG, I have devolved a lot of tedious Photoshop work to scripts and routines of some kind. Likewise with text and data manipulation that I mi…
— Hard_Space, 2026-05-18 · Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops? · source

…ike that, one keystroke opens them in a new firefox window on top of everything. One can also use something like mpv or imagemagick if firefox feels too "heavy."…
— asdff, 2026-05-15 · Feedr v0.8.0 – a TUI RSS reader, now read the full article from your terminal · source

…x setup on debian or an older ubuntu LTS: Running up-to-date desktop apps like synology-drive, prusa slicer, keepassxc, kdenlive or even Steam at the same time without any conflicting dependencies and configurations tainting the distribution. And if you do not want to use it any…
— oflebbe, 2026-10-19 · Flatpak – An Insecurity Nightmare (2023) · source

…a bit of everything: dev work (InteliJ), basic 3D modeling/printing (freeCAD, Blender, Orca), light video editing (OBS, Kdenlive), gaming (wine) ... Could probably go with an Arch based distro, but the Ubuntu/Debian base is useful for the good compatibility.…
— nickserv, 2026-10-05 · The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux · source

…gnificantly easier to use and does what you need for casual editing. If you want a step above that and still FLOSS then Kdenlive is a better choice. What makes your original comment useless is that it reads like an American saying, 'I bet our GDP is bigger than Nauru's' - like wh…
— Matl, 2026-08-31 · OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor · source

…programs can dispense with 50% of their complexity by just offering an API for LLMs to execute? By way of example I use Kdenlive 90% less and just use Codex to issue the ffmpeg CLI commands directly when I want to crop/format video on my PC.…
— mentos, 2026-08-24 · Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance · source

…currently recording tutorial videos for an open source project. It's produced fully with Foss software (on Linux, obs, kdenlive) and about an open source project, so I wanted to host it with peertube (though YouTube might be used later on for its network effect, it was easier to…
— raphinou, 2026-07-02 · PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform · source

…ground (which is pretty blue), and text color #dad8d8, and I find it quite good. https://blog.velocifyer.com/ I use the Dark Reader extension's brightness and contrast settings to fix this often, or other times I use the Stylus extension and write custom CSS.…
— Velocifyer, 2026-11-04 · Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3 · source

I have found that Dark Reader works much better than this. (I use Firefox generally, but my employer forces Chrome for many work tasks, and is also very concerned about data security from 3rd party extensions, so Dark Reader is not readily accessible. I use Dark Reader with Firef…
— john01dav, 2026-10-20 · Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? (2026) · source

I use Dark Reader on Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, but I've found Noir to be better on Safari.…
— nick_, 2026-09-14 · iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 · source

I use Dark Reader on my Firefox Mobile and on any of my pc browsers.…
— HeavyStorm, 2026-09-13 · Ask HN: How can I browse HN in dark mode? · source

For me it’s Dark Reader (https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader) which can be installed on at least chrome and Firefox desktop browsers, and safari and Kagi on iPhones. I use it to keep from getting flashbanged by my monitor. In this case it also fixes the above site, however s…
— Modified3019, 2026-06-24 · Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose – No Kubernetes Required · source

…fast. I use it daily to maintain my 8000+ note Zettelkasten that also acts as a personal CRM (meeting transcriptions), Readwise collection, journal, and home for agent rollout summaries. Core to its design are questions that are generated from recent material and projected over…
— jphorism, 2026-10-24 · Show HN: Enzyme – a programming language that compiles wikis for agents · source

…write letters I can print out. Essentially digital typewriter. https://www.crowdsupply.com/zerowriter/zerowriter-ink - Readwise - enables me to review highlighted passages and ideas from things I read - Obsidian - I dump text files into it, it syncs it around for me to review or…
— philips, 2026-09-12 · Is it time for a Luddite Renaissance? · source

…'s a great feeling. I now finally have an app that I use to save both links and articles to read, sort of in-between of Readwise Reader and Raindrop (and it does sync with Readwise). I write my blog posts in a little browser-based note-taking app with sharing. It's minimal and lo…
— ymolodtsov, 2026-08-01 · Software for One · source

One thing that changed reading for me was Readwise. One of my favorite products. Super simple concept, I just highlight quotes I like, then I get a daily email of random things I've highlighted. Great way to retain info from non-fiction books, and to retain the feeling of special…
— Ozzie_osman, 2026-07-12 · How to read more books · source

…ht, Excalidraw, Hotkey Helper, Image in Editor, Minimal Theme Settings, Omnisearch, Outliner, Periodic Notes, QuickAdd, Readwise Official, Recent Files, Relay, Style Settings, Tag Wrangler, TaskNotes, Templater HTH!…
— chrisweekly, 2026-05-12 · The Future of Obsidian Plugins · source

…o I switched to that instead. Here's me TIL write-up of getting Parseable running locally https://til.simonwillison.net/datasette/datasette-parseable-...…
— simonw, 2026-10-06 · Show HN: Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min · source

My automation is pretty simple. I use my https://llm.datasette.io tool where I have a template saved: llm "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle" --save pelican When a model comes out I first make sure LLM can talk to it - usually by updating the relevant plugin, but i…
— simonw, 2026-09-04 · GPT-6 Astra · source

…way more than just adding custom apps to the interface surface and promoted it to its own top-level concept within the Datasette ecosystem.” For decades that sentence would have parsed without the word surface in it. What does it mean that's suddenly so – um – load-bearing?…
— Terretta, 2026-06-19 · Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette · source

…not the root cause in two different places? Isn't it better to style `textarea` once? Etc, etc. [0] https://github.com/datasette/datasette-agent/commit/a75a8b72...…
— bananaquant, 2026-06-12 · Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive · source

…CHECK constraints" I use my own sqlite-utils CLI/Python library to work around these limitations: https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/python-api.html#...…
— simonw, 2026-05-29 · SQLite is all you need for durable workflows · source

…but only temporarily and it reenables itself unpredictably. Love that. /s Nothing more butt-clenching than pulling the handbrake or flicking a car into a corner on snow, with TC re-enabling itself mid-slide, so you slide doors-first towards the ditch in 'Jesus take the wheel' mo…
— lan321, 2026-05-04 · Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons · source

…ably go Blu-Ray at least to have higher resolution content... Ripping isn't too bad (I use make-mkv then re-encode with handbrake). I don't really notice going up from 1080p, but really notice going below 1080p content. I also don't mind h.265's blurry handling of degradation o…
— tracker1, 2026-04-09 · Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead · source

HandBrake is the best if you want to ruin all of your DVD encodes. e: downvote if you want but I'm right and you're wrong lmfao For anyone in the peanut gallery who wants a good deinterlacer, try QTGMC. It's originally an Avisynth script, but I use a VapourSynth port: http://avis…
— Lammy, 2026-03-27 · HandyMKV for MakeMKV and HandBrake Automation · source

…not wanting to upload personal files to sketchy, ad-ridden conversion sites. Don't want to download a desktop app like Handbrake for quick, trivial tasks. LocalSquash runs ffmpeg.wasm entirely locally in your browser. You drag and drop a file, tweak simple sliders, crop and/or t…
— dfskGT, 2026-03-18 · Show HN: LocalSquash – A local web UI for FFmpeg.wasm · source

…mpare to other software on Mac such as Pages, Xcode, Tower, Transmission, Pixelmator, mp3tag, Table plus, Postico, Paw, Handbrake etc, (the other i use) etc those are a delight to work with and give me the computing experience I was looking for buying a Mac.…
— bromuro, 2026-02-22 · Why is Claude an Electron app? · source

Mine is a notebook, a sketch book and a reading device. I read books and queued Instapaper articles, take meeting notes, and make digital art. I love that device to bits.…
— nicbou, 2026-10-26 · New iPad mini · source

I use Instapaper on my kobo for this, ifttt or zappier can subscribe an rss feed to Instapaper, also the browser extension is nice. See some article whilst I'm at work, click the browser extension, and when I'm on the train home Its there on my e-reader.…
— phelm, 2026-08-14 · I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone · source

…of reading digitally. I find it easier to stay engaged because a book has only one purpose while my iPad Mini also has Instapaper and the internet. It’s also much easier to pick up and keep reading, and the book itself is a progress indicator. I also love sharing paper books wit…
— nicbou, 2026-04-12 · Americans still opt for print books over digital or audio versions · source

I have a kobo and I use Instapaper. Is this similar?…
— mparnisari, 2026-03-29 · I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper · source

…side-by-side with a B&W screen. I do miss whisper sync, which I’d occasionally use to read a few pages on my phone. The Instapaper integration is awesome— I used to pay for KTool to accomplish something similar.…
— johnhamlin, 2026-03-29 · I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper · source

…d added the requested filters. Thank you! My dear God, I love you man. I have tried to get this feature by using custom tampermonkey scripts with tld-list.com which would output a .csv file and then having a custom html file (which I have to open manually) to then get the idea of…
— Imustaskforhelp, 2026-11-01 · Tld.wiki – The wiki for Top-level Domains · source

…for 1st year for 1$ at Namecheap (I use tld-list.com to find cheap domain tlds) (extreme side note I also have a custom tampermonkey script to sometimes find the cheapest one ie. completely available not premium domains but yeah I need to make the script slightly better) [I built…
— Imustaskforhelp, 2026-10-27 · Discord will soon let anyone find public server messages through Google · source

…Button (To highlight if the page has a feed, so I can subscribe with my own Miniflux instance), 1Blocker (Ad blocking), Tampermonkey for loading userscripts on some websites, Readdeck extension to easily send something to my "read later" pile. It's not a lot of them, but every ti…
— dewey, 2026-09-14 · iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 · source

I've tried to write a tampermonkey script to at least block the Reels, but even that's hella difficult. The solution is truly to just never be on Facebook, but - our local PTA only distributes news via Facebook. (There may be a Whatsapp group I don't know about, which isn't bette…
— pavel_lishin, 2026-08-12 · uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook · source

…https://github.com/violentmonkey/violentmonkey now though? thought I realize "if it works it works", https://github.com/Tampermonkey/tampermonkey…
— grimgrin, 2026-07-28 · Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript · source

…had some issues with grayjay desktop(not the mobile app which works great) I then simply moved all my subscriptions to miniflux and newsrafts(which I now rarely use). I use feedflow on android and reminiflux on desktop as I don't like the miniflux frontend. So now if there is a…
— 0fflineuser, 2026-10-31 · HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN · source

…ly I still talk to people on there) - my very small imgur-inspired image hosting (https://github.com/deniska/imghost) - miniflux (RSS client, I am trying to get into a habit of reading RSS feeds instead of letting the algorithm to decide what I read) - git directory with bare rep…
— deniska, 2026-10-09 · Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? · source

…ot already, but one thing I do that I haven't seen others already doing yet is I run a news summarization pipeline with Miniflux and Flatnotes. All my feeds are in one of two categories; Summarize and NoSummarize. Once a day, a script fires at everything unread in the Summarize c…
— mrngld, 2026-10-09 · Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? · source

I use 1Password, RSS Button (To highlight if the page has a feed, so I can subscribe with my own Miniflux instance), 1Blocker (Ad blocking), Tampermonkey for loading userscripts on some websites, Readdeck extension to easily send something to my "read later" pile. It's not a lot…
— dewey, 2026-09-14 · iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 · source

…of the feeds I subscribe to do not include the full text in the feed themselves which is one of the main reasons I use Miniflux which has an option to fetch the full article text and works very reliably. Of the more than 150 feeds I am subscribed to, I think there are fewer than…
— MattTheRealOne, 2026-08-14 · I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone · source

…I'm much less overthinking the whole issue than you are All my switching feels organic in retrospective and creating a Proton mail account + GMail forward didn't seem like a big deal at the time, it's not like you have to self host your SMTP server or similar effort after all. I…
— alexfortin, 2026-10-09 · Stop complaining about enshittification. Use the alternatives · source

I switched to Proton Pass yesterday, since I’m already a subscriber to Proton Mail. Setup and import from 1PW was easy, took maybe 15 minutes tops. So far it has been working satisfactorily enough.…
— mplanchard, 2026-09-04 · 1Password Replied to My Disappointment · source

…tion provider like ntfy. Prism also allows Telegram or Signal to act as a notification distributor. In addition, I use Proton Mail which doesn't really allow custom notification services. Prism has a custom integration to work around that so your proton mail notifications don't…
— lone-cloud, 2026-08-14 · Ntfy – open-source Push to Mobile · source

I've used Fastmail for years but a year ago switched to Proton. For me the only reason to switch to Proton was that its hosted within the European continent, while Fastmail is hosted in I would say that Fastmail is the "Ferrari of e-mail" services. It does everything well, or ext…
— foresterre, 2026-06-02 · Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left · source

…double of spam... I use only Gmail as a "register and get a spam" email account. Any serious or important email goes to proton mail. PD: I contacted that person and I formed about the situation some time ago.…
— Zardoz84, 2026-06-02 · Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left · source

…was sites trying to avoid being scraped to death for training data. Alternatively, I use Firefox with uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger - so it might be that.…
— andyjohnson0, 2026-11-03 · Getting hit with "Prove you are a human" at every other website · source

…count login personalization, no account logged in, in incognito, using: Ublock origin lite, User Agent / OS Randomizer, Privacy Badger, and using a VPN to other locales. That's why I want to know, I've been curious about this for years, and nothing I've looked at seems conclusive…
— esseph, 2026-09-22 · Attention is all you have · source

…f the worst options. So this new link jacking really doesn't matter. Tell people to use firefox with ublock origin and privacy badger. I am sure there are even better combinations. Use something to block junk. I just had to install open source local alternatives for someone w…
— roosterIllusi0n, 2026-08-31 · In less than a year, Google made scraping 10× harder · source

…olf - same as Orion: 18.29 fingerprint uniqueness - I dont know the other browsers except Tor. I use librewolf too with privacy badger and librejs - good browser…
— mediumsmart, 2026-07-20 · Orion Browser by Kagi · source

…sites, with your new browser. But I would recommend beefy adblocking and tracking-avoidance - uBlock Origin [1] and EFF Privacy Badger for example - or even disabling JS if you want the more static old-school feel. NoScript is a browser add-on which does this for Firefox or Chrom…
— einpoklum, 2026-04-24 · Using the internet like it's 1999 · source

I use the Orion browser on my iPhone and it doesn’t have ads. I also don’t install the YouTube app so I use the browser to visit the YouTube site and have an ad free experience and can even have audio playing on it while the screen is off or I’m in another app so it’s an objectiv…
— Teever, 2026-09-22 · Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy · source

…. my benchmark for browser ad blocking and ublock-origin is one of the few (only?) that does it. This is why I use the Orion browser on iOS.…
— eikenberry, 2026-09-01 · Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS · source

…a openrouter, but can’t get as good responses, so there’s something very clever they do with their harness. I use their Orion -browser and its summarise -function, which is very good. I am happy to pay for all this, it feels like they actually want to serve you good products, not…
— delis-thumbs-7e, 2026-07-23 · Back to Kagi · source

I have just switched from Orion to Vivaldi partially as it seems to use less memory. I suspect this is because I use several profiles amd each one in Orion is in effect a copy of the whole Orion browser whilst in Vivaldi less things a re duplicated. Or possibly my style of when t…
— pasc1878, 2026-07-19 · Orion Browser by Kagi · source

I use Orion Browser and don’t know what you are referring to.…
— 47282847, 2026-02-12 · iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day · source

…ng visual applications, desktop harnesses are better because it's a bit easier to send screenshots to the agent. I love Zed editor but its AI review features are lacking compared to VSCode. I go back to it frequently and am ready to switch over when the team resolves the usabilit…
— apatheticonion, 2026-09-27 · GPT-6 Sol and Luna · source

…and editor unresponsiveness, and any time you're doing IPC, that's another source of latency and fragility. My current Zed editor instance has 5 different language servers running, implemented in at least 3 different languages, some of which require a full VM runtime. Could Zed…
— simonask, 2026-09-19 · Why building a Rust LSP is hard · source

Looks like a great feature/product/functionality. I hope that Zed editor will make it work with LLMs/agents that run in the terminal, not just the Zen Agent itself. Is it even possible? I use OMP.sh agent running in Zed terminal.…
— g42gregory, 2026-08-05 · Zed DeltaDB · source

I like Pi, but I didn't end up using it. I tried OpenCode, Pi, Zed Editor and some NVIM packages. I wanted open source, featureful and easy to use. Specifically I wanted to easily edit the agent prompt. I ended up on VS Code. I'm very critical of Microsoft generally, but VS Code…
— mw888, 2026-08-05 · Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage · source

I use DeepSeek every day (via VSCode Insiders and Zed Editor). It's very affordable and, while it's slightly behind Claude (not sure how far behind Fable), it suits my working style well. I'm not using unsupervised multi-agent workflows and don't need a library of skills files -…
— apatheticonion, 2026-06-17 · US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks · source

I can't recommend AdGuard enough. It works across devices, and just does all the DNS level blocking everywhere. I've been able to install it on my parents' devices, my siblings' devices, and more places. They have apps for just about any device. On top of that, you can install us…
— figmert, 2026-10-06 · System-level ad-blocking in Android · source

…ad blocking baked in with less restrictive blacklists, so that's what I use. Before I got the FW, I used Tailscale and AdGuard Home.…
— nunez, 2026-08-30 · “It works better in the app” · source

> ...my primary line of defence is AdGuard Home. By handling privacy at the DNS level... To each their own, I guess, but that would be a hard pass from me. One example from mobile: FF on android keeps trying to connect to its various services (like firefox.settings.services.mozil…
— bornfreddy, 2026-04-09 · Little Snitch comes to Linux, but the core logic is closed source · source

…For time synchronization, I rely on 2x NTP270 from CenterClick. As a TAP device, I use the Protectli Vault and a Pi 4b. AdGuard Home is deployed on my OpenWrt GL.iNet routers. Most of my services are now hosted on VPSs: 3x Netcup VPS 1000 ARM G11 (6 vCores, 8GB RAM, 256GB NVMe) 7…
— exiguus, 2026-03-24 · Migrating to the EU · source

I use unbound (recursive resolver), and AdGuard Home as well (just forwards to unbound). Unbound could do ad-blocking itself as well, but it's more cumbersome than in AGH. So I use two tools for the time being. The upside is there's no single entity receiving all your queries. Th…
— diarrhea, 2026-03-22 · Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2 · source

I used MacWhisper for a long time and then recently switched to the free TypeWhisper. Both work very well on a Mac.…
— jwr, 2026-08-28 · Gemini-3.5-Transcribe · source

…s throughout the day and then use the SD card to transfer them to my Mac. From there, they automatically get added to a MacWhisper watch folder and then automatically transcribed to plain text with the Parakeet v3 model. I use regex to put each sentence on its own line and then I…
— treetalker, 2026-07-24 · Calm technologies that excite me · source

I don't know if it meets your needs, but I use MacWhisper (Pro) for this. I was an early Pro user so I think I only paid $5 at the time. https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper https://www.macwhisper.com/…
— runjake, 2026-07-16 · Ask HN: Best meeting transcription daemon for macOS? · source

…tools for this, and I use the one that I tried first, so there are probably better-suited alternatives out there. I run MacWhisper, and I paired it with BetterTouchTool so it triggers on any input when I double tap the fn/globe icon. Obviously all of my transcriptions through it…
— jorl17, 2026-06-06 · Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI? · source

…-into-OS/app models. Which is interesting, because there's nothing stopping them from just using Whisper models. I love MacWhisper personally. Also, Gumroad is a fantastic app distribution platform for my personal values. https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper As far the "de…
— nerdsniper, 2026-05-01 · Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app · source

Kind of, yes. DeArrow is crowdsourced, and I love that people can submit a better title and pick a real frame from the video. I wanted one step more: the actual answer to the clickbait, right on the thumbnail, without waiting for someone to submit it, since it comes from the tran…
— virpo, 2026-11-01 · HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN · source

…Ps I hate mentour pilot's clickbaity thumbnails so much. That alone puts me off from watching it too. But lately I use "DeArrow" which desensationalises all the thumbnails and even titles. That helps a lot. Mentour pilot is not alone in this, a lot of youtubers do it, but he sens…
— wolvoleo, 2026-09-04 · Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023) · source

…a see someone glaze over human rights violations in order to celebrate mega projects. I'd at least highly recommend the DeArrow extensions to de-clickbait this channel's titles. As much as I criticize the channel, I admit I can't look away…
— culi, 2026-07-06 · Egypt Is Building a New Nile · source

…clothes, watching the entrance of the building... Stating the subject of the video makes a lot of sense for them. I use DeArrow to remove clickbait titles and thumbnails, so indeed, I don't need that information to be repeated. I don't mind a few seconds at the beginning, what I…
— edarchis, 2026-05-06 · Why most product tours get skipped · source

Very cool, thanks! I've been using SponsorBlock for a long time. This is the first time I'm hearing about DeArrow and I paid for it. That guy is doing incredible work.…
— kirubakaran, 2026-04-16 · YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes · source

This is a frustration for me as well. A few useful tricks, and some areas I'm looking to explore: - AntennaPod (Android: https://antennapod.org/about/) doesn't specifically block ads, but does make skipping them fairly painless. I'm not familiar with the iOS app space. - Seek…
— dredmorbius, 2026-07-12 · How to read more books · source

Homebrew and mise-en-place are the only must have apps for me (both of which are not .app applications). Everything else is pretty well context-dependant and/or built in. For Homebrew - having used Nix, Macports, and pkgsrc, I found Homebrew easier than everything else. I would…
— kdtsh, 2026-06-23 · Ask HN: New clean macOS install. Must-have apps? Best browser? · source

…se "asking Claude about it" meant making myself stop and think through the process, plan an approach and put together a mise-en-place rather than starting, realizing I needed a couple of tools, leaving things a mess and not coming back due to anxiety. Basically, it helps me avoid…
— tclancy, 2026-02-27 · Generative AI use and depressive symptoms among US adults · source

…ssions so everyone can run the binary. You _can_ use a venv. I prefer a dedicated environment for this. I've been using Mise-en-place lately, it's great. > Will any random greeter program just naturally pick up the contents of /usr/share/xsessions, then? Yep. Your login manager w…
— stonecharioteer, 2025-11-21 · The Qtile Window Manager: A Python-Powered Tiling Experience · source

…brary, I share your concern. I use the Universal Blue Silverblue variant for it's integrated Nvidia support with either mise-en-place[0], or the native toolbx[1] utility for isolated environments. [0]https://mise.jdx.dev [1]https://containertoolbx.org…
— seemaze, 2025-08-06 · Omarchy, a Linux Distribution by DHH · source

Why should I use something other than Cloudflare pages for a simple app landing page?…
— Cider9986, 2026-07-26 · Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers · source

Not really, not for 1¢/day. Most massive platforms that I use for free (Google Workspace, Cloudflare Pages, even Oracle Cloud always free tier) have outlived many low cost solutions I tried.…
— blfr, 2026-07-19 · Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day · source

…ells and whistles on a platter: Squarespace, Wix, etc. if you want to supply all the HTML/CSS yourself: Github Pages or Cloudflare Pages. (Later, if you want to host the above (except the "bells and whistles" tier) yourself: Hetzner, Digital Ocean, etc.)…
— daemonologist, 2026-06-28 · Ask HN: Is WordPress the best way to create new websites for beginner · source

…letting you score your local DNA against gigabytes of weighted variants for all of the identified traits through cheap cloudflare R2 CDN byte range sipping (and hosted on cloudflare pages free tier!). The benefits of the architecture are pretty obvious as far as simplified hosti…
— techninja42, 2026-06-18 · Show HN: Asili – open-source, privacy-first in-browser DNA PGS scoring · source

…ct colors. I noticed that even some bigger websites have sometimes problems in this regard. - Everything is deployed to Cloudflare Pages (after working mostly with Python/Django, I am in love with Cloduflare staging/prod deployments and quick e2e testing) In the future I hope to…
— Zernat, 2026-04-15 · Show HN: Pufomi – Set of client based image tools with a simple UI for everyone · source

I use Typora, although it’s not “knowledge management” beyond a basic Markdown editor with a file tree.…
— armchairhacker, 2026-11-04 · Bear turns 10, and it still feels like day one · source

…ideal for writing a document. So the idea is: what if we could have a "visual" tab for LaTeX and Typst and edit like in Typora? Source: https://github.com/texpile/texpile…
— asyncfun, 2026-10-06 · Show HN: Texpile – An open-source, Typora-style editor for LaTeX and Typst · source

+1 for Typora. One of the things I like is that it gives you some flexibility in how it handles images you drag into a document for embedding purposes. My favorite option is the one where it automatically colocates assets by creating a folder with the same name as the file, appen…
— vunderba, 2026-08-11 · Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS · source

I've been using Typora for years. It has a pretty great export/print.…
— emehex, 2026-08-11 · Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS · source

As a user of Obsidian I like this, it looks good and clean. I use Typora often as it is easier to start in a folder and just work on the files, on top it has nice visuals. Very good work.…
— desireco42, 2026-05-18 · Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian · source

…his "handcrafted with love by a small indie shop" landscape of commercial Mac apps, with Mojave Paint, my Photoshop and Affinity Photo competitor. https://mojavepaint.app…
— jpsimons, 2026-07-13 · Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026) · source

Version 2 has been fine. FWIW though, I don't use Affinity Photo (but bought it too because I like the company). I'm Pixelmator Pro when it comes to pixels (but love Affinity Designer and Publisher).…
— JKCalhoun, 2025-10-30 · Affinity Studio now free · source

And if you want just a photo editor, not a vector software, I really recommend Pixelmator Pro. I've had it and Affinity Photo for years, but I find myself sticking with Pixelmator more often than not.…
— presbyterian, 2025-10-30 · Affinity Studio now free · source

…as a podcast. It's not that hard to type the correct words and/or a non wobbly font with Paint.NET / Photopea / Gimp / Affinity Photo / Photoshop / <your favorite pixel editor here>. It also shows an usage of AI without supervision which is kind of a red flag. I used to listen t…
— PetitPrince, 2025-10-09 · Talk Python in Production · source

…d could feasibly work offline? Every native app I use is local-first. Eg. Photoshop, Blender, Figma, Xcode, Zed, Kitty, Affinity Photo/Designer, Notes, Music, Calendar, Messenger, Maps, Email, etc.…
— b_e_n_t_o_n, 2025-09-22 · Why haven't local-first apps become popular? · source

…alldocs.org, which focuses on making Markdown a highly expressive space for agents (think slides, spreadsheets, charts, mermaid diagrams, etc.). I have built a local library which lives in the browser but reflects your local file system - explainer here: https://smalldocs.org/con…
— FailMore, 2026-08-22 · Show HN: OzBrain, a shared brain for knowledge between agents and your team · source

Mermaider is a dotnet lib for generating Mermaid diagrams. I love it because it is self-contained and fully AOT. I recently submitted PRs to flush out the types it supports; v0.9.0 now supports all 24 major Mermaid diagram types.…
— cek, 2026-07-21 · Mermaider is a dotnet lib for generating Mermaid diagrams · source

…e right thing or meeting the right needs. For me the focus was introducing easily readable / digestible docs, including mermaid diagrams where they are useful, linking to other parts of the code / docs, etc. and then a layer on top is a basic "Q&A" feature (you could do the same…
— ghosts_, 2026-07-09 · Ask HN: How do you keep documentation up to date with AI generated code? · source

…r I wanted an editor that could handle everything a dev throws at it without feeling bloated. Supports Code blocks, Mermaid diagrams, and LaTeX. Custom components built-in, like Flashcards for studying. Fully customizable: tweak the fonts, sizing, spacing, and UI to y…
— SpyNinja, 2026-05-16 · Annota – A local-first, E2EE note app with BYOK AI · source

…browser based Markdown renderer for developers who use CLI-based agents and today at work had a great experience with a mermaid diagram [3] to explain some architecture. I didn't think the renderer I had to paste my diagram code in was that great (tried to upsell me), so this eve…
— FailMore, 2026-05-07 · Creating for a niche · source

Who doesnt? I use raindrop.io for bookmarks, its amazing.…
— lifeisloving, 2026-11-02 · Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN · source

…dflare workers ai setup to test out models. I’m trying to incorporate the same bookmarking features I love so much with Raindrop.io (big fan) and experimenting with a new wiki generation feature. It’s only soft launched but happy for any feedback. https://notebooker.ai…
— mistakevin, 2026-07-13 · Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026) · source

…ns of files and folders rather than putting all my data into dedicated black holes with better viewing features such as Raindrop.io, Apple Photos, and Eagle 4.…
— miguel-muniz, 2026-05-15 · WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward · source

Check out raindrop.io, I use it everyday it’s it’s been a pleasure to use.…
— adityamwagh, 2026-02-15 · Show HN: Arcmark – macOS bookmark manager that attaches to browser as sidebar · source

Need to take a look. For my CTO newsletter I use raindrop.io to store interesting articles I encounter, export them to CSV (like bookmarks.txt), sort, filter and remove 90%, convert them to my own format, write my content and convert them to Markdown and then to HTML with Hugo.…
— KingOfCoders, 2025-08-28 · Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files · source

…that has been! I can't believe self-hosted products of this caliber are free. Huge shout-out to HomeAssistant, PiHole, paperless-ngx, Dawarich, and countless others for the same reason. Congrats to the team on the release and thank you for helping me catalogue my personal memori…
— slaye, 2026-07-03 · Immich 3.0 · source

I use paperless-ngx for digitizing all my documents, it also uses Tesseract. The result is not perfect, but more than acceptable, if I scan at 600dpi…
— graynk, 2025-10-10 · ScribeOCR – Web interface for recognizing text, OCR, & creating digitized docs · source

…running on the NAS that actually stores and manage the data to be simpler. So that means running plex/jellyfin, kometa, paperless-ngx, *arrs, immmich on the NAS and for that synology's cpu are not great. In general, the most common requirements of prosumers with NAS is 2.5gbps an…
— sersi, 2025-10-08 · Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs · source

…s tool to "scan" the kiddos' homework with my phone. Switched to Quickscan later because it also integrates nicely with paperless-ngx.…
— gigel82, 2025-08-09 · Microsoft Office Lens getting the axe · source

I use syncthing... it's great for that purpose, Android is not officially supported but there is a fork, that works fine. Maybe you want to combine it with either ente.io or immich (also available for self-hosted) for photo backup. I would also distinguish between documents (like…
— sandreas, 2025-07-19 · Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts · source

…y, but I think it makes sense market-share wise at the moment. At the moment I'm also assuming that if someone is using Cursor AI tooling/Grok, they're probably using Cursor IDE and terminals in there. I am planning on looking into integrating Pi.dev, which I love the philsophy o…
— mcclowes, 2026-08-17 · Show HN: Saggar, a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized · source

When I say "I use cursor" I mean the subscription. In reality I use the cli tui literally called "agent" and the cursor ide isn't installed at all.…
— hparadiz, 2026-08-14 · Cursor is now a part of SpaceX · source

You can use Cursor CLI, it's a terminal agent, just like Claude Code and Codex. I use it sometimes, I haven't opened the actual Cursor IDE in ages. The potential benefit of Cursor CLI (vs CC and Codex) is that you can easily between all major models (by Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, as…
— jkukul, 2026-08-01 · Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export · source

Using Cursor with Jetbrains via ACP isn't that different than using within the Cursor IDE. You still get Agent/Plan/Ask modes with model selectors. I'd recommend installing the Cursor IDE, then using it to install Cursor CLI (it's easier to keep things up to date this way), then…
— debug-desperado, 2026-06-16 · SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B · source

This is how I use Cursor IDE with its Planning mode.…
— wmeredith, 2026-02-10 · Why "just prompt better" doesn't work · source

…was a loyal Firefox user but between the memory and perf issues and now this, I've now switched to Helium. I miss the "Multi-Account Containers" but that's about it. They just had to look at Arc for what people want out of the future of browser design and instead they committed…
— osener, 2026-09-29 · The new Firefox design is here · source

…nnounced manifest v3, and I'm still happy with it. Not only I get a browser with a real adblock, now that I got used to multi-account containers, I can't go back to chrome since it has no good equivalent. And I'm also using it on mobile since it's one of the few mobile browsers w…
— Aozora7, 2026-09-02 · Hang on to Your Firefox · source

…of a remote resource (for security or at least as often to bypass a routing deficiency I am troubleshooting) and before Multi-account Containers I'd basically have to fire up a completely different browser since the proxy settings I use would control every tab and every site I tr…
— HappMacDonald, 2026-07-26 · Firefox Containers Preview · source

Great to see this feature being added to other browsers. I use the Firefox Multi-Account Containers, Temporary Containers, and Containerize extensions to manage my browsing and it's (mostly) a very nice experience. There are some rough edges for certain tasks, but I've not had an…
— ddejohn, 2026-07-02 · Brave's latest browser release offers Containers for better and easier workflow · source

…n SMS codes or a Chase Bank App? I have to deal with the former because I auto-delete cookies when I close tabs and use Multi-account containers on Firefox. I've never been required to install any application (Chase branded or otherwise) on my phone in order to use the Chase webs…
— nobody9999, 2026-01-29 · Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app · source

…rs updated. To ensure everything stays running smoothly, I've built a lightweight watchdog (a mix of bash scripting and Uptime Kuma/Beszel) that monitors my services and containers and restarts them if they crash. This way, I rarely need to intervene manually. For critical servic…
— exiguus, 2026-07-01 · I don't maintain my homelab, it maintains itself · source

https://statusdrift.com — uptime/cert/domain/dns/tcp monitoring, with status pages, incident management, SLA monitoring and on-call. I got tired of the state of monitoring and ITSM tools. Most established tools stopped investing years ago. Everything has artificial limits or a cr…
— razno, 2026-04-13 · Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026) · source

…lerio. I built this because I manage a few production servers. Recently, my main API became unresponsive at 3 AM. I had uptime monitoring set up (Grafana/Uptime Kuma), but the standard push notification was too short/quiet to wake me up, especially since my phone was on "Do Not D…
— royal-amrah, 2026-02-08 · Show HN: Alerio – Turn Webhooks into Critical VoIP Calls (Overrides Silent Mode) · source

Can recommend Uptime Kuma for this purpose: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma…
— FinnKuhn, 2025-11-18 · Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues · source

I use uptime-kuma[1] with notifications sent out through the included Apprise integration[2] 1. https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma 2. https://github.com/caronc/apprise…
— hoherd, 2025-07-22 · LetsEncrypt Outage · source

In Safari, I use AdGuard and Consent-O-Matic, which catches pretty much everything.…
— 9dev, 2026-06-16 · Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers · source

I use Consent-O-Matic. It doesn't catch everything but it does work on some sites. Basically it just automatically goes for the "Reject" option if that's provided in a reasonably standard way. Lots of sites where that doesn't work, obviously. But a few where it does. Probably a g…
— jillesvangurp, 2025-09-29 · Privacy Badger is a free browser extension made by EFF to stop spying · source

Exactly. My favourite extension is Consent-O-Matic to auto accept annoying (and meaningless) pop ups.…
— tsoukase, 2025-07-26 · Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build · source

I use the Consent-O-Matic addon to auto-process cookie consent popups. (I believe that's how it works.) uBlock Origin could then be used to handle the sites that lie or don't offer a choice at all.…
— doctor_radium, 2025-07-19 · Ask HN: Is clearing browser data (cookies, cache, history) enough? · source

I'd also recommend Consent-O-Matic for auto-clicking through most GDPR cookie notices ;)…
— trinix912, 2025-07-13 · Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update · source

…get streamed across the network to a NAS, and the contents of the NAS are periodically (every few months) stuffed into borgbackup on redundant offline devices. Aside from sync the other problem you'll run into if you're a data hoarder is how to split backups across multiple driv…
— fc417fc802, 2026-09-03 · Creating Backup Storage Sucks · source

…d sometimes I'd end up with those files back on the original PC in a backup of another. Fortunately, when I switched to borgbackup on Windows as well [1], this massive reduplication of files became a solved problem. [1] borgbackup doesn't officially work on Windows, but I run it…
— ralferoo, 2026-07-08 · Copy That Floppy – Cambridge guide for preserving data from fragile floppy disks · source

…there are tons of other solutions, many that will have snapshot features. I use borg backup, for instance. https://www.borgbackup.org/ Also, look into scriping your server setup with tools like Ansible or PyInfra. There is always the risk that bad things happen to servers, and w…
— jarofgreen, 2026-02-09 · Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026) · source

…we had all done this before, but I couldn't remember anything. Thankfully my very long password I use for an encrypted Borgbackup I have was somewhere deep or untouched, but, otherwise I would have been fucked. Also, the backup codes Google told me they would always accept faile…
— ddtaylor, 2026-02-06 · Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer? · source

I use Pika Backup which runs on the BorgBackup protocol for backing up my system’s home directory. I’m not really sure if this is exactly what you’re talking about, though. It just sends backups to network shares.…
— dangus, 2026-01-11 · CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun · source

Reproducible builds are nice, and I would love to have them for Signal. But I think I disagree with most of what you've written. Enabling "unknown sources" does not make my device less secure. The setting is also disingenuously named: It is in fact "known sources" I am installing…
— fwn, 2026-08-10 · Signal is working on a paid option to create an account without a phone number · source

…jects, they roflstomp the UI options available to most developers. I can't say enough what a smoking gun the flickering Signal app is here!…
— tptacek, 2026-05-13 · The Emacsification of Software · source

Those are valid arguments but I like apps better, for other reasons. Mostly security. When I use, say, the Signal app: - I can audit it, download it or even compile it myself from sources - Once I have installed it, Signal doesn't get to change it "in my back" - As a result, I do…
— palata, 2026-04-06 · I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok · source

…upport Linux ARM, so you have to go through some configuration unfortunately. I do not use any of them, I use Matrix. > Signal https://forums.puri.sm/t/signal-app-now-usable-in-portrait-m... https://framapiaf.org/@lolgzs/113010288224110061 > Whatsapp ... Discord https://forums.pu…
— fsflover, 2026-03-02 · /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem · source

There is no way to use the Signal app on a device without a camera (USB cameras are even explicitly blocked!), and sync it with another computer. I use a Daylight computer as my primary mobile machine, which does not have a camera. The Molly app is the only way I am able to use S…
— Zambyte, 2025-11-29 · Molly: An Improved Signal App · source

…b crawler of 958+ makers (artisans, craftspeople, smiths, authors), focusing on interesting people building interesting things around the world. TECH STACK: Selenium/Chrome drive the 'WOBBOT' crawler, with some SerpAPI, Pyton/bs4/html5lib/pillow/spaCy does named-entity extraction…
— shanedevane, 2026-10-25 · Show HN: Directory 958 inspirational artisans, craftspeople, smiths, for post-AI · source

Brave has certainly said a lot of good things while doing quite [0] a lot [1] of bad [2] things [3] that make me think it's mostly just marketing to lower-knowledge users that's carrying it forward. I see so many 'privacy' influencers that recommend it and Chromium, and then Fire…
— paimapi, 2026-08-16 · Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker · source

…e mesure I have), over 16+ weeks, with Opus 4.6 (nothinking!) and now Fable (low thinking). I get there not doing a few things differently: 1. I frontload the design-time thinking and elaboration. I absolutely use agents in design (usually 2 of them, plus me). However, I don't le…
— DaveParkCity, 2026-07-29 · The task is not the job · source

…noticed none of the apps felt native to the iPhone, and I wanted something that felt on-part with the likes of Flighty, Things 3, and such. Out of my love for weightlifting I then shipped Plates and have been working on it ever since. It's a completely native iPhone lifting app (…
— tomburgs, 2026-07-13 · Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026) · source

…s at work. Yahtzee Croshaw reading his books is fantastic [2]. As is Patrick Rothfuss reading The Slow Regard of Silent Things [3]. A more recent author I listened to was Adrian Tchaikovsky reading Service Model [4]. He was so good, I checked to see if he had theater training! Re…
— russellbeattie, 2026-01-12 · JRR Tolkien reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952) · source

21k from around one year I use the extension 'Tree Style Tab', with some settings changed, and 'Auto Tab Reaper' to unload old tabs. Or Sidebery Eventually I will probably just bookmark them Ctrl-Shift-D, which was what I was doing before, at the end of the day for all tabs open…
— guilhas, 2026-07-17 · Ask HN: How do you manage too many open tabs? · source

…e MacOS terminal, I had many agents running across tabs but they were difficult to track. I built it because I love the Tree Style Tab Extension in Firefox. I built it because, it is the time for Chrome, but for agents. I made it, to make it as simple as possible and nothing more…
— WasimBhai, 2026-04-22 · Show HN: Rapunzel – a tree-style terminal for AI agents · source

Now I understand why I'm getting paywall limits even in private browsing :) I use Tree Style Tab, so my canvas is also of unusual size and ratio. I guess I can try making it more narrow or wider to combat that :)…
— HackerThemAll, 2025-11-11 · Firefox expands fingerprint protections · source

…ifferently? I want less news, not more. > Organize my tabs by category and close the ones that are distractions I use a tree-style tab manager. You will close my tabs over my dead body. > Build a basic website for me using the best website generator tool Are you fucking serious?…
— AlexErrant, 2025-10-06 · The Internet Is Better on Comet · source

…ood separation I use firefox for "personal browsing" and safari for all work-related browsing and logins. Firefox, with tree style tab, might not be the best browser but it's good enough for me. I just wish I could trust Mozilla to make good decisions these days. Pushing addons…
— stevekemp, 2025-01-02 · Ask HN: Which browsers did you try in 2024, and what's your daily browser? · source

…k export to Markdown (organized by session & domain), Notion-ready hierarchical text, Netscape HTML Bookmarks, CSV, and OneTab format. 5. Native Browser Semantics: Tab items use native <a> anchors, preserving middle-click to open in background, native context menus ("Open link in…
— jarvissing, 2026-09-24 · TabVault – Open-source tab manager with atomic crash recovery · source

…e AI. The trick I use is when glancing through the homepage, I just open all the tabs that interest me and move them to OneTab. Eventually I sift through the threads on a lazy weekend. Many weren't that interesting, so they end up getting closed on the spot, same for those that d…
— mickelsen, 2026-08-15 · Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days? · source

…o find one of them, I can open the cemetery and search there (it's organised by "dump date"). This extension is called "OneTab" (I have no interest in promoting it, that's just what I use). Works well for me.…
— palata, 2026-07-16 · Ask HN: How do you manage too many open tabs? · source

It's how i've been using onetab for years. Simple clean and easily sharable.…
— klueinc, 2026-03-19 · Show HN: Pano, a bookmarking tool built around shareable shelves · source

…ve seen...They've built some stuff that is kinda close, and they already have a good crawler/indexer. I have been using OneTab to quickly consolidate a lot of tabs to a single list of URLs, which actually does help me "feel" a bit better, but doesn't solve the semantic search iss…
— TheTaytay, 2026-01-07 · A tab hoarder's journey to sanity · source

Instead of this I use Leechblock to cut the /feed access after 2 minutes, to prevent doomscrolling (no DOM change)…
— ea016, 2026-08-08 · LinkedIn Feed Blocker · source

…t, for those of us who KNOW it's an addiction and are actively trying to quit, but struggling to limit our usage. I use leechblock NG which is amazing for browser-based sites, but wouldn't really help a kid who's having the isuse on apps. There are many further steps to take, but…
— zug_zug, 2026-07-15 · The kids with phones are alright · source

…context switching is a big struggle. I often check Reddit while researching or coding, but end up doomscrolling. I use LeechBlock with limited overrides (15 minutes max) for when I actually need access, and add a 15-second delay for certain domains. That combo keeps me from disa…
— recursivegirth, 2025-11-02 · Show HN: I built a smart blocker after destroying my dopamine baseline · source

I've been using Leechblock, a more generalized blocker for all kinds of sites that might otherwise be unobjectionable, to do this. It doesn't hide links/thumbnails for shorts, but prevents me from visiting them (since I have leechblock set to block them "24/7 and until the end of…
— PaulDavisThe1st, 2025-10-23 · FocusTube: A Chrome extension that hides YouTube Shorts · source

…at usually means "all social media but youtube". Turn off autoplay/autoplay next on Youtube. On desktop, I actually use LeechBlock to even block youtube during work hours. It has a feature that blocks any override for specific sites or sets. If I want to use youtube, I pull it up…
— muddi900, 2025-10-10 · Ask HN: Most effective way to reduce excessive digital media consumption? · source

ShareX has been around for ever but just updated the UI and now super easy to do capture work with annotations and cam output etc (no studio but it's light weight) btw I use OBS virtual camera its one of my fav features with masking etc for a video avatar vlogger effect https://g…
— jimmySixDOF, 2026-10-24 · OBS Studio 33 · source

…ws 10 and had to change my hotkey. (Much like I'm now annoyed at Windows 11 for hijacking the printscreen key I use for ShareX)…
— efreak, 2026-04-12 · Installing every* Firefox extension · source

…rosoft products. VMwaresing VMWare and WSL foLinux distributionsnux distros. The other things that Linux is missing are ShareX (has flameshot I know), no WhatsApp (PWA might work, but it is a hack). Google Drive that I use to share my KeePass databases (no GDrive on Linux afaik).…
— system2, 2026-01-28 · Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux · source

I've been using the open source ShareX screenshot tool: https://getsharex.com/…
— mkl, 2025-11-15 · Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11 · source

…e is top notch and they're not trying to embed ads into the OS. The only things I miss from Windows now are videogames, ShareX, and Everything. But Raycast and iStat Menus, while different, are awesome in their own way.…
— pants2, 2025-10-02 · Why the end of support for Windows 10 is uniquely troubling · source

With the same mindset i've build screenshot tool to replace shottr and paid license to cleanshot x, added missing features that I wanted to have for years (doing bunch of screenshots and videos daily) and i love this tool…
— razyoudude, 2026-08-01 · Software for One · source

…aS apps that don’t actually have a need for recurring charge probably should be paid one time. I don’t use Loom — I use CleanShot X and it was a one-time $30 payment and has a lot of great features I benefit from. I can’t reimplement it in $30 of tokens or $30 of my time. But for…
— Shank, 2026-01-22 · Your app subscription is now my weekend project · source

One reason I use Cleanshot is that it can also record screencasts with a floating recording of my face via the webcam. Is there a plan to bring that to Bettershot?…
— geekybiz, 2026-01-20 · Show HN: Bettershot an OSS Alternative of Cleanshot · source

CleanShotX [0] is what I used. Honestly the cloud hosting aspect is overpriced but it does make sharing a picture/video super easy for cases like this. I know macOS has annotation tools built-in for screenshots but CleanShotX's tools are about 1 billion times faster/easier to use…
— joshstrange, 2025-11-05 · An eBPF loophole: Using XDP for egress traffic · source

I love Cleanshot!…
— shafyy, 2025-01-08 · Automated accessibility testing at Slack · source

…cabin with the avatars of anyone else "on" that flight. Slight bug report - might just be HN hug-of-death related - on Arc browser, mostly without it as the active tab, I seem to have been stuck over Slough for some time (an ignoble fate). I believe Arc reduces resources allocat…
— gabriel666smith, 2026-09-16 · Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger · source

I use the Arc browser -- it has a different way of organizing tabs into spaces in a quite intuitive and easy way.…
— veesander, 2026-07-16 · Ask HN: How do you manage too many open tabs? · source

Sample size: 1 but I use Arc browser. It's still webkit under the hood (and in maintenance mode now), though it's actually pretty good and last I checked had most of the baked in google stuff toggled-off by default…
— butlike, 2026-03-19 · Astral to Join OpenAI · source

I love the Arc Browser, but they discontinued development on that. I honestly have no interest in Dia at this point. AI is already available in any of the tools that I would want it in, and I don't think I would want any one company having visibility into more of my apps and da…
— amykhar, 2025-09-04 · Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company · source

I've been using Dia for about a month. Dia is made by The Browser Company of New York, best known for the Arc browser [1]. Dia is a fabulous piece of work--it's much more than Chrome + a chatbot. You can tell they thought deeply what would it mean for AI to be integrated into a b…
— alwillis, 2025-07-11 · Perplexity Comet · source

I am working on speeding up the review-refine loop of LLM generated artefacts between me and the LLM. i run my coding agent (claude code) in auto / full-permission mode, so it doesn’t stop for accept/reject — by the time it’s done i’ve got a pile of generated code, docs, sometime…
— realrocker, 2026-07-13 · Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026) · source

…ently. I posted this yesterday https://github.com/day50-dev/petsitter I use it with https://github.com/day50-dev/simple-llm-cli And modify the "tricks" until my evals get to good numbers. It's a model by model basis. This is what the larger firms are doing - they have custom prom…
— kristopolous, 2026-06-17 · Running local models is good now · source

I use this tool all the time. Mainly for running various LLM cli tools and whatnot. No way will I install those tools on my host OS due to my unfounded paranoia. Container still has a few warts. Mainly, Container and mDNSResponder on macOS do not always play nicely together. If y…
— hirvi74, 2026-05-07 · I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook · source

…-only. I've seen people unable to work at average speed on small features suddenly reach above average output through a llm cli and I could sense the pride in them. Which is at odds with my experience of work.. I love to dig down, know a lot, model and find abstractions on my own…
— agumonkey, 2025-12-30 · Professional software developers don't vibe, they control · source

`gh pr diff num` is an alternative if you have the repo checked out. One can then pipe the output to one's favorite llm CLI and create a shell alias with a default review prompt. > My company uses some automatic AI PR review bots, and they annoy me more than they help. Lots of us…
— hrpnk, 2025-12-21 · Get an AI code review in 10 seconds · source

…ith the goal of running macOS CLI binaries natively on Linux ARM machines. As of now, we have working prototypes for: - 7-Zip: Passes multi-threaded compression tests on an 8k-file tree. Currently ~5.2x slower than native Linux execution, but I already mapped out a clear optimiza…
— vlad_kalinkin, 2026-08-02 · Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM · source

…ell does this: Forces TLS 1.2 and creates a randomly-named folder in %TEMP%. Downloads a copy of 7z.exe (the legitimate 7-Zip binary) from httXXXps://mstclaudens.beer/api/7z.exe — it brings its own archiver so it doesn't depend on one being installed. Downloads a password-protect…
— stringfood, 2026-06-05 · Good Careers at Bad Companies · source

…few years back too (incl. using the lib directly from Java, massively decreasing log storage, and so on). Why use it w/ 7-zip though. 7-zip archives multiple files/directories and supports encryption. It has the UI too.. On Windows there is NanaZip that's available in the microso…
— xxs, 2026-05-07 · SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format · source

…xploits[1]. Personally I use only zstd with .7z which is 'non-standard' by the official (Russian) release. [0]: https://7-zip.org/7z.html [1]: CVE-2025-0411…
— xxs, 2026-05-07 · SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format · source

I want to opt out though. I use 7 zip all the time and I don't want this menu that can't have 7 zip...…
— mcny, 2025-11-25 · Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023) · source

I've been using the 'ClearURLs' FF addon for quite a while now, and it gives you the URLs back in the results. https://docs.clearurls.xyz/…
— liquid_thyme, 2026-09-12 · google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update · source

…after chosen time (default 15s) after changing/leaving domain. It has many other useful options. Another good addon is ClearURLs 1.27.3 which clears suspicious parameters of query strings on everything what's loaded by page. It sometimes break sites.…
— gitowiec, 2026-09-07 · My practical approach to surfing the web safely · source

It's not the same, as it only works on the receiving end, but I use the ClearURLs addon for stripping that out. At least it somewhat helps, and ensures that any URL I copy from my browser doesn't have tracking IDs. https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon…
— NamTaf, 2026-09-04 · Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60% · source

…Firefox will always be my primary as I find the addon options make the internet functional for me. Canonical, Certage, ClearURLs, CSS Exfil Protection, FoxReplace, NoScript, Tab Reloader, Temorary Containers, uBlock Origin, Zoom Page WE I use both browsers on Linux.…
— Bender, 2026-06-07 · Tell HN: Helium is the best browser I ever used · source

…the explanation parts as comment blocks? Happy to see you recommend uBlock Origin and LocalCDN. I would humbly suggest ClearURLs might belong. Another excellent "set it and forget it" extension that skips common tracking redirects. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/clearu…
— schiffern, 2025-08-31 · Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy · source

I love userscripts. Aren't we all using https://github.com/violentmonkey/violentmonkey now though? thought I realize "if it works it works", https://github.com/Tampermonkey/tampermonkey…
— grimgrin, 2026-07-28 · Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript · source

I agree, though I use Violentmonkey instead of Tampermonkey because open source, and uBlock Origin because rewriting it as a *monkey script is somewhere between "Implement a MIDI Machine Control interface to my turntable" and "Rewrite FreeBSD in Rust" on my project list.…
— jasomill, 2026-04-09 · Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read · source

…ist is what's not there. I'm not seeing my spicy extensions (e.g. BPC), or the ones I use to block content on LinkedIn (ViolentMonkey, Ublock). So this isn't about detecting what they might deem as bad behaviour. Nor could it be a fingerprinting thing, right? You'd want a full li…
— specproc, 2026-04-03 · LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions · source

…week I've been playing around using web chatbots to write userscript. So far, I've just been cutting/pasting code from ViolentMonkey's basic edit window - which is a clunky workflow and a real editor like VSCode would be great. Even though the script is quite short, I've already…
— mrandish, 2026-01-29 · Show HN: Cursor for Userscripts · source

…lendar If such things matter to you, they have CalDAV and WebDAV offerings, the latter of which I use for backing up my ViolentMonkey scripts. I haven't used their "Google Keep" replacement because Joplin serves my needs, but it does exist. And all of this for the same yearly pri…
— mdaniel, 2025-05-09 · Doge software engineer's computer infected by info-stealing malware · source

I use Warp terminal for couple of years, and recently they embeeded AI into it. At first I was irritated, disabled it, but AI Agent is built in as an optional mode (Cmd-I to toggle). And I found myself using it more and more often for commands that I have no capacity or will to r…
— divan, 2025-10-23 · Scripts I wrote that I use all the time · source

I use the Warp terminal and I can ask it to run —-help and it figures it out…
— stevejb, 2025-08-22 · FFmpeg 8.0 · source

The Warp terminal[1] is excellent for this type of thing. In agent mode, you just describe what you want to have happen and it generates the proper command(s) (that you can approve before running). I use it a lot to convert videos and turn a folder of tiff files into pngs at 1/2…
— toddmorey, 2025-07-14 · Show HN: FFmpeg in plain English – LLM-assisted FFmpeg in the browser · source

…ft, your options expand dramatically. I think most people are using off the shelf paid solutions like cursor, windsurf, warp terminal, Claude code. I'd love to get a set up with a locally hosted full version of deepseek.…
— komali2, 2025-06-03 · My AI skeptic friends are all nuts · source

Try the Warp terminal app. That’s what I use and it does this. Its other main deal (to me) is that you can use the mouse and any other normal means to edit a command line. Really good for changing something on like line 1 of a 17-line curl command.…
— xp84, 2024-12-25 · CLI tool to insert spacers when command output stops · source

…deberg.org/bouncepaw/betula/) for this purpose of a self-hosted personal Google (for websites). (For file search, I use voidtools' Everything, and I'm not sure why anyone other than Microsoft would want to mix local file results and web results) This project looks cool, though I…
— pidgeon_lover, 2026-09-18 · Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep · source

…od way to put it. There are third-party tools that Microsoft really need to adopt to make Windows a bit nicer (WizTree, VoidTools Everything, adopt improvements from Total Commander, make more PowerToys default), but broadly it is still a decent OS. There are issues like slow `Cl…
— delta_p_delta_x, 2026-03-20 · Our commitment to Windows quality · source

One of my first visible actions when working at a new company is to recommend the search software Voidtools Everything, and to set a 30 minute meeting to teach people how to use it. For the next 6-12 months I get so much positive feedback about all the time that is saved while na…
— Cyan488, 2026-01-29 · Is it worth it? (2021) · source

Holy crap, thanks for sharing this. I'm still pretty new to macOS, but I absolutely love Voidtools Everything on Windows. If Cardinal supports the same syntax as Everything and is anywhere near responsive, that'll be a gamechanger for me.…
— biglyburrito, 2025-12-05 · Cardinal: Fastest file searching tool for macOS · source

…e the services manager allows me to make sure that certain services arent running, like Windows search indexing - I use voidtools Everything instead. That said, those tend to be the exceptions and not the rules. I've actually been quite pleased with the progression of the settin…
— LexiMax, 2025-08-03 · Microsoft is open sourcing Windows 11's UI framework · source

…ified to be synced with the generated Audio. Needed just one prompt though. 3. Recording the Animation. Go Full Screen. OBS Studio Recording the window. Animation runs on autoplay, and hides the player controls. Move mouse to another screen. Record and Reload page to start from 0…
— bhasinanant, 2026-02-24 · [dead] · source

…- game engine - Zed - rust-based code editor - Claude Code - anthropic's ai coding assistant - REAPER - daw of choice - OBS Studio - streaming and recording - Astro - the static site generator that built my site - Cloudflare Pages - site hosting - Ghost - used when a family or fr…
— metasaval, 2025-12-27 · Ask HN: What Is Your 2026 Personal Software Stack? · source

…ne of those tasks that for me I do just quite infrequently and I don't like how in arch, I had to update my system with obs as a dependency always or I had to uninstall it. Ephemerality was a concept that I was looking for before nix since I always like to try out new software/ke…
— Imustaskforhelp, 2025-06-25 · Fun with uv and PEP 723 · source

…e always seen flatpak as a way to install large, potentially crappy desktop applications without polluting your system. OBS studio is a perfect example - it's a great app but it's the only one I use that uses QT, thanks to flatpak I don't even have the QT libraries installed on m…
— WD-42, 2025-05-23 · The Future of Flatpak · source

…r and I might switch back in some days. The biggest advantage to me feels nix-shell which is cross platform I installed obs-studio from nix-shell, built a video, then used another nix-shell for ffmpeg and converted video to mp4 and uploaded it to github. This is my general use ca…
— Imustaskforhelp, 2025-05-17 · You do not need NixOS on the desktop · source

Personally I can understand why these instructions were added. Back in the GPT-5 days I tried using that model for a uv/Python project but it consistently ran the wrong commands or used pip despite my instructions within AGENTS.md . This was because whatever uv features/behavior…
— JLO64, 2026-09-09 · Codex silently begs agents to make arbitrary web requests · source

…: cd .venv ls -l bin/python lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 myuser staff 85 Oct 29 13:13 bin/python -> /Users/myuser/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.13.5-macos-aarch64-none/bin/python3.13 So, when you mount that virtual environment in a container, it won't find the path to the python bin…
— tecleandor, 2025-10-30 · Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade · source

> "uv add" One life-changing thing I've been using `uv` for: System python version is 3.12: $ python3 --version Python 3.12.3 A script that requires a library we don't have, and won't work on our local python: $ cat test.py #!/usr/bin/env python3 import sys…
— danudey, 2025-08-13 · FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support · source

I love this feature of uv but getting linters/language servers to pick up the venv when editing the files is a bit of a pain. I currently have a script 'uv-edit' which I am using to run Neovim with the correct environment: #!/bin/bash SCRIPT="$1"; shift uv sync --quiet --sc…
— gkfasdfasdf, 2025-07-22 · Uv: Running a script with dependencies · source

So far I've only run into one minor ergonomic issue when using `uv run --script` with embedded metadata which is that sometimes I want to test changes to the script via the Python REPL, but that's a bit harder to do since you have to run something like: $ uv run --python=3.13 -…
— js2, 2025-06-24 · Fun with uv and PEP 723 · source

Bypass Paywalls Clean works fine, recommend to install it.…
— sexy_seedbox, 2026-07-06 · Has China obtained the most important machine? · source

As an NYT subscriber, I'd like to toss out there that Brave browser (or the ad blocker of your choice) + bypass-paywalls-clean works very well. You can even be signed into your account, and everything works smoothly. I use a throwaway email that's just for NYT for the subscriptio…
— trollbridge, 2026-06-04 · The desperation of NYTimes · source

…on is a reminder that, despite OpenAI’s unprecedented rise, it remains very much a start-up." I use a Firefox add-on to Bypass Paywalls.…
— mrandish, 2025-12-10 · OpenAI Is in Trouble · source

…tracker, 5–6 AI agents etc. It was fast to learn: get a DM, press ^3; to file a bug, press ^4 etc. I use this with the Rectangle app for window tiling, and this combination works great for me; I rarely ever use Cmd+Tab. I also have a personal menubar app that's very similar to S…
— thamer, 2026-04-10 · Native Instant Space Switching on macOS · source

I install Rectangle App on any mac I use. The keybinds are convenient and the auto-sizing/tiling is pleasant as can be.…
— Supermancho, 2026-01-11 · The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe · source

I use shortcuts to split windows with rectangle app all the time it’s really more powerful than split screen…
— shinycode, 2025-07-25 · Show HN: A macOS clock that stays visible when coding or binging in fullscreen · source

I can recommend you to also use "Rectangle" app with that.…
— greatgib, 2025-03-02 · macOS Tips and Tricks (2022) · source

I love the Rectangle app. The problem is that the average Mac user has no idea this exists at all. So when Joe Windows considers switching over to Mac, they see that there's no equivalent to the Windows snapping feature that's been in their OS since Windows 7, and they might thin…
— dangus, 2024-06-11 · macOS Sequoia Preview · source

…use ffmpeg to crop and move the viewport slowly over the image, this scrolls at 20 pixels per second for 30s - with the mpv player one could change speed dynamically through keys. ffmpeg -loop 1 -i long_image.png -vf "crop=iw:ih/10:0:t*20" -t 30 -pix_fmt yuv420p output.mp4 Altern…
— fsiefken, 2025-12-31 · Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite · source

…hings. Now, that's all axiomatic inscribed acoustics, let's get down to less theory: - For video playback control I use mpv.el with some customizations. Turns out mpv player has IPC and can be perfectly controlled from Emacs, I bet Neovim users do that as well. It's nice when tak…
— iLemming, 2025-08-07 · Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs · source

As someone who went MPC-HC + MadVR + ReClock -> mpv years ago (well, I also switched to Gentoo, to be fair). This is completely right. BUT mpv still isn't perfect. The script in https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/8463 is really needed to handle some stuff (mainly clandestin…
— BoingBoomTschak, 2024-08-18 · Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player · source

…maintainer, I feel that. You also close issues without even trying to understand what they’re about? https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/177#issuecomment-29... https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/177#issuecomment-62... > some random dude coming to my repos expecting I i…
— latexr, 2024-08-18 · Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player · source

I love their section on how to embed mpv in other apps [1]. Too bad there's not an XEmbed equivalent for Wayland [2]. [1] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv-examples/blob/master/libmp... [2] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/9654…
— dsp_person, 2024-08-18 · Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player · source

…ted directory and marketplace where publishers can sell NuGet packages directly, with full dotnet push/restore support, Stripe payments, and automated access control. In open beta now, onboarding publishers. Would love feedback.…
— martz, 2026-02-09 · Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026) · source

…ral language. You can describe what you want (e.g., “Build a dashboard for freelancers with Firebase authentication and Stripe payments”), and Workfusionapp generates working code in React, Next.js, or other frameworks — plus automates workflows and deployments. We’re aiming to m…
— feliciiien, 2025-10-27 · [dead] · source

…uilt features and production-ready integrations. Included: Dual-role auth (buyers/sellers) Google OAuth, email/password Stripe payments + subscriptions + invoices Ratings, reviews, favorites Admin dashboard Cron jobs, SEO (sitemap, robots), newsletter footer Docker deploy (Coolif…
— eliana_jordan, 2025-05-14 · I built a Next.js boilerplate for P2P and B2C marketplaces – Peerquik · source

…te with the basics, for less than a meal out. The idea was to help developers skip the repetitive setup for things like Stripe integration, authentication, and landing pages. It’s meant to save time, especially for those working on quick-launch side projects or MVPs. I know this…
— enamkret, 2024-11-12 · Yet another micro-SaaS boilerplate – This one won't make you go broke · source

…Some graphic design for previous projects This is a scrappy MVP built using a Bubble template / Landing page Webflow / Stripe payments / Claude/ Open AI Key features include: (10-20 seconds per output) - Transforms company market releases into full article outlines and drafts -…
— fowler, 2024-08-26 · Show HN: Journo AI – Automating time consuming tasks for Journalists · source

Also, not affiliated with Vivaldi. Just been loyally using them since the alpha bc they posted here about being The Real Opera’s Phoenix, aka its spiritual successor made by a band of Opera employees that Jerry McGuire’d. I watched the movie for the first time because of this bro…
— xerox13ster, 2026-06-16 · Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers · source

…n. It's the connection that makes it memorable. Even yacc and grep have some connection to the program. I've been using Vivaldi browser for a while now, but neither the name nor icon have formed a natural connection to browsing for me. Same with Lazarus (an IDE), no obvious link…
— drpixie, 2026-01-20 · Luxury Yacht is a desktop app for managing Kubernetes clusters · source

…That's called "using an email client" to access email. The way it originally worked, you know, and still does[1]. I use Vivaldi browser, which has a built-in mail client[2]. You can use Mozilla Thunderbird[3], or (gasp) Outlook. All of them allow you to maintain a complete, offli…
— romwell, 2024-09-16 · LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat · source

I use Vivaldi browser and this does it very cleanly for me. I can see the tabs that are open on my phone, my laptop, or my desktop from the other devices. I can choose to open one tab from there or all of them. Works very well for me.…
— thunderbong, 2024-09-11 · Ask HN: How do you sync ongoing browser work between desktop and laptop? · source

…om server code. But it was really needed only when I use my framework with Vite. For example, if we use it with a clean bun setup, then I can do it with bun runtime plugins, which also allow me to modify code on the fly and do it really faster than vite. So I want to say that in…
— 1gr14, 2026-07-03 · Vite+ Beta · source

…hon but still feel insecure given the lack of static typing. I look at TypeScript as well, especially in the context of Bun runtime. I decided it may not be for me, not the language, but the ecosystem around it.…
— mrbonner, 2026-03-20 · Show HN: Sonar – A tiny CLI to see and kill whatever's running on localhost · source

…e. It seems pretty hard to tailor/sandbox the context and workflow of an agent to the extent that's needed. I think the Bun acquisition by Anthropic could shift things too. Wouldn't be surprised if the majority of code generated/requested by users of LLM's is JS/TS, and Anthropic…
— damslunk, 2025-12-04 · Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig · source

…example of a small microcut I faced (which might be fixed now) https://github.com/honojs/hono/issues/1216 In contrast, Bun had less cognitive overhead and just "worked" even though it didn't feel as clean as Deno. Some things aren't perfect with Bun either like the lack of a Bun…
— outlore, 2025-07-07 · Deno 2.4 · source

Yup, I have a similar setup where I use a Wireguard VPN to tunnel traffic to a tiny public facing Caddy server, which proxies the traffic to the server under my own roof. No Cloudflare!…
— doawoo, 2026-07-18 · Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day · source

That's why I switched to Caddy for most of my needs. I create one Caddy server template, and then instantiate it as a new host with one line per server.…
— miroljub, 2025-04-15 · Simple Web Server · source

…t it wasn't even hobby project ready yet? Also yeah, I agree that Babashka is a delight. I've been using it to manage a Caddy server via Caddy's JSON API and it worked great, super flexible.…
— aquariusDue, 2025-02-24 · Why Clojure? · source

…uilding Docker containers using CI. I use Drone, but instead of using the Docker plugin I start a detached (background) Caddy server to work as a proxy to DOCKER_HOST. That lets me proxy to the local Docker socket to take advantage of caching, etc. while I'm iterating, but gives…
— ryan29, 2024-11-15 · Red Hat to contribute container tech (Podman, bootc, ComposeFS...) to CNCF · source

…age binary as a filesystem. So doesn’t really make sense as media library backup over just scheduling a periodic borg / restic backup to glacier directly.…
— darkteflon, 2025-10-05 · Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop and disks · source

…there. Backup is always a hard problem, but I got to live with Hetzer Clould backing up my VMs, Hetzher Backup boxes as restic backup targets and a tiny Celeron server in the laundry closet for local backups.…
— sam_lowry_, 2025-10-05 · Self-hosting email like it's 1984 · source

Related: Restic 0.17.0 Released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41082937 - July 2024 (5 comments) Restic – Simple Backups - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38915291 - Jan 2024 (14 comments) Restic 0.15.0 Released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34364925 - Jan 2…
— dang, 2024-10-13 · Restic: Backups done right · source

Quote: "This is not a fullblown restic backup GUI - it only allows you to browse existing repositories" I use it Backrest https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest…
— AdaX, 2024-07-16 · Restic-Browser: A GUI to browse and restore restic backup repositories · source

…like smaller, independent-ish ompanies that actually care about developers. That's why I use bunny.net, transistor.fm, Plausible Analytics.…
— kugelblitz, 2026-04-07 · Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net · source

…nds, dark/light modes Privacy-first: Your data stays in your browser by default. No tracking beyond privacy-friendly Plausible analytics. No sign-up walls. The timestamp-based timer was the most interesting technical challenge — browsers aggressively throttle setInterval in…
— pgebski, 2026-02-20 · Show HN: HushWork – A calm focus environment for focus in one tab · source

…smaller side projects, or is this for fully fledged app only? Also, should we add know open source applications such as Plausible[1]? I am always happy to see Elixir and Erlang hit the front page. [1] - https://github.com/plausible/analytics…
— mig4ng, 2025-09-19 · Show HN: WeUseElixir - Elixir project directory · source

…e aren't vendor-locked to stripe / getlago you can still use stripe just helps adaptability in case stripe goes weird). Plausible analytics is nice, much better than GA imo. Sendgrid is what I'd normally reach for so that makes sense. Tailwind is what I use for css always so that…
— canadiantim, 2024-01-31 · Show HN: Open SaaS – An open-source alternative to paid boilerplate starters · source

…yer.com/ I use the Dark Reader extension's brightness and contrast settings to fix this often, or other times I use the Stylus extension and write custom CSS.…
— Velocifyer, 2026-11-04 · Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3 · source

…ame broken themes. I forgot to back it up. Adding dark mode doesn't need a bunch of extensions, and while I'm sure the "stylus" extension is probably useful (I haven't used it, sounds like a CSS override extension), UBO does CSS and JS. Just my thoughts. Don't mind me.…
— eek2121, 2026-11-04 · Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3 · source

I use the Stylus extension for site-specific CSS in Chrome. Usually end up with a big comma-separated list of selectors getting the { display: none !important; visibility: hidden !important } treatment.…
— ebertucc, 2026-01-19 · Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results · source

It doesn't fit your criteria of being open-source/free, but I built Bloomberry (bloomberry.com) as an alternative to Wappalyzer for exactly this use case. It analyzes DNS records, subprocessor lists, DNS traffic data to find the real technologies a company uses. So stuff like you…
— AznHisoka, 2026-02-05 · Ask HN: Any Recommended Alternative to Wappalyzer? · source

…s like nextjs and react. We chose to focus more on paid products instead. Builtwith (and its competitors like Whatruns, Wappalyzer and Similartech) is missing data on a lot of backoffice/backend products which we have data for…
— AznHisoka, 2025-09-25 · Ask HN: Decent Builtwith alternative for finding leads? · source

Wappalyzer extension says it's using Firebase, are you? If so, why mixing it with all the AWS stuff? I've been using Firebase for quick mini-projects and it's fun and quick it is for prototyping. If you use it for hosting, no worries about Cloudfront, routing, SSL, or anything...…
— groggo, 2024-03-05 · Show HN: NeedleDrop – Guess the movie from a song · source

…LOL). - TTS built in, but also easy way to bring your own voiceovers and sync to the video scenes automatically (using Whisper transcription). - AI background music and sound effects. - A CLI tool to interact with various components in the pipeline. The first video I generated u…
— prajwal299, 2026-01-01 · Show HN: Automated video generation pipeline using ClaudeCode in 3 days · source

I have mixed thoughts about audio journaling. At first I was in love - I made an app around Whisper transcription model the weekend it came out. (Still working on it - https://whispermemos.com) But when I try to read those recordings, they seem long and uninteresting. I think the…
— Void_, 2025-09-14 · The Socratic Journal Method: A Simple Journaling Method That Works · source

…r speaker recognition. I have been tackling this while building VideoToBe.com. My current pipeline is Download Video -> Whisper Transcription with diarization -> Replace speaker tags with AI generated speaker ID + human fallback. Reliable ML speaker identification is still surpri…
— meerab, 2025-07-23 · Yt-transcriber – Give a YouTube URL and get a transcription · source

Me, on the other hand, love ffmpeg, because I notice my ytdlp using it and my vlc player sometimes using it and I have two homemade powrshell scripts using it to convert flac to mp3 and whatever. I don't want to open a program and figure out it's UI for those things. It has a job…
— mylastattempt, 2026-02-06 · Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use · source

…https://sqlitebrowser.org/) - Handbrake for video conversion. (https://handbrake.fr/) - IINA for videos. Prefer it over VLC Player. (https://iina.io/) - The Unarchiver for misc compressed files. (https://theunarchiver.com/) - Wi-Fi Explorer Pro for wi-fi stuff. (https://www.intui…
— runjake, 2024-06-10 · Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend? · source

I've been using for many years now the unhook youtube[1] extension to hide any distracting nonsense on youtube, you can select piecemeal what to hide, like the recommended trash in the sidebar, cards at the end of the video and even the main page. Supports firefox, chrome and edg…
— amlib, 2024-05-22 · YouTube seems to once again be rolling out its widely hated new web redesign · source

I love the idea of pushing JQ and other DSLs close to the database. I've written jq extensions for SQLite [0] and Postgres [1], but my approach involves basically embedding=pushing the jq compiler into the db. So you can do `select jq(json, jqprogram)` as an alternative to jsonpa…
— fforflo, 2024-10-06 · Sq.io: jq for databases and more · source

…for me in Python, everyone who develops with me knows I won't shut up about it. Astral is a great team, they built the ruff linter and are currently working on a static type checker called red-knot: https://x.com/charliermarsh/status/1884651482009477368…
— evanwpm, 2025-02-19 · A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate · source

…e Linux almost definitely beats macOS or Windows. > OnniGraffle There's a large swathe of diagramming tools in Linux. > Alfred App Yep, both KDE and Gnome are able to handle this task as well as Alfred. Like automation, this is probably an area Linux will be able to shine above m…
— deaddodo, 2024-12-14 · macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive · source

to be honest, I use the calibre ebook viewer without bothering with calibre itself (so far) and I find it to be good at what it does…
— wing-_-nuts, 2026-07-29 · KOReader · source

Same and it's my favourite Kobo feature. I hope Mozilla releases Pocket source code for people willing to self-host it. Kobos are highly hackable and I'm sure the community will find a way to change getpocket.com domain in the built-in Pocket app, even if Rakuten chooses not to p…
— gobblegobble2, 2025-05-22 · Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot · source